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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

John Maynard Keynes

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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
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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Accident Achievement Economist Immortal Writing
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
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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Distribution Economy Income Mistake Outstanding Wealth

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