His Newtons peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen through it.
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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, Baron Keynes of Tilton
There are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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.
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was 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.... Lenin was certainly right.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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