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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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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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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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