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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

John Maynard Keynes

Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Believe Economics Fools Temporary
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Error Excessive Ideas National Power
The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Economics Nation Necessary Poverty Problem Struggle
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Cycle Finding Permanent Remedy Right Trade
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

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