"The power to become habituated to his surroundings……" — John Maynard Keynes
"The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind."
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121 Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
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- I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
- It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former…
- This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set…
- The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
- Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency.…
- [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
- Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of…
- As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly…
- Chess is a cure for headaches.
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- It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps…
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