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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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The duty of saving became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
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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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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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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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Too large a proportion of recent mathematical economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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