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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Conservatism leads nowhere it satisfies no ideal.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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