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John Maynard Keynes
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John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
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The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere it satisfies no ideal it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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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 friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.
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