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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.
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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
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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 central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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