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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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 principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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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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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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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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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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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