English - Economist | June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
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