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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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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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The expected never happens it is the unexpected always.
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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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