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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side? He said, That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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When I find new information I change my mind What do you do?
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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