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"The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones." — John Maynard
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"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be..." — John Maynard
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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still." — John Maynard
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"The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit" — John Maynard
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"Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own." — John Maynard
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English Economist    Mind   

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"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." — John Maynard
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English Economist    Words   

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"Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally" — John Maynard
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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." — John Maynard
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English Economist    Wealth   

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"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." — John Maynard
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English Economist    Inflation   

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"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." — John Maynard
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"In the long run we are all dead." — John Maynard
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"Ideas shape the course of history." — John Maynard
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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." — John Maynard
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"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." — John Maynard
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"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong" — John Maynard
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"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." — John Maynard
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"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent" — John Maynard
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Education   

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"In the long run, we're all dead." — John Maynard
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"The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas" — John Maynard
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"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative." — John Maynard
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"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." — John Maynard
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