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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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Baron Keynes of Tilton
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The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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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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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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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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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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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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