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The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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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Baron Keynes of Tilton
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They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere it satisfies no ideal it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
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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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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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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 Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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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In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.
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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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 study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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