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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.

~John Maynard Keynes

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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.

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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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

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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: June 5th, 1883

Died: April 21st, 1946

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