What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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