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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
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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.
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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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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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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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The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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