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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.
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