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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Acceptance, Past, Men

  End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1

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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bad Ass, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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• The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Work Out, World, Lines

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.15, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Jobs, Fate, Politics

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Thinking, Investing

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Individual Happiness, Iron

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Morbidity, Possession

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.534, Penguin UK

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• Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheism, Information, Wells

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• The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, War, Benefits

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Blood, Opposites

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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Evil, Dangerous

  General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24

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• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Democracy, Balance

  General Theory of Employment (1936) ch. 24

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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Needs

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• Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Expectations, Investing

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Science, Years

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Thinking, Risk

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• It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Decay, World, May

  1930 A Treatise on Money.

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• The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Evil, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Encroachment, Interest

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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• The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ignorance, Dark, Skills

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 5, p. 155, 1935.

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Slumps, Found

  Thorstein Veblen, Richard Henry Tawney, John Maynard Keynes (1990). “Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes”

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• The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Gold, Revolution

  John Maynard Keynes (1958). “A Treatise on Money”, London : Macmillan

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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 .

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheist, Character, Escaping

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Rewards, Penalties, Obstinacy

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.101, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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