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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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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

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In the long run we are all dead.

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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: June 5th, 1883

Died: April 21st, 1946

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