Tag: John Maynard Keynes
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes
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Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes