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In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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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
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion

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