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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 my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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