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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

John Maynard Keynes

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
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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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
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
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

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