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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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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Baron Keynes of Tilton
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When I find new information I change my mind What do you do?
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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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.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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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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