There are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The love of money as a possession as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem, but if you owe a million, it has.
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The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already and to do them a little better or a little worse but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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