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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

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In the long run we are all dead.

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The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

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Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive…

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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

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