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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

John Maynard Keynes

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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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