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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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Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
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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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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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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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...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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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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