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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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 work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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 love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Conservatism leads nowhere it satisfies no ideal.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
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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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