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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
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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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The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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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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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.
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