Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intelligence pursuit that carries any rewards.
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I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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There is no harm in sometimes being wrong, especially if one is promptly found out.
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I do not know what makes a man more conservative, to know nothing but the present or nothing but the past.
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I evidently knew more about economics than my examiners.
[on the Civil Service examinations]
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If economists could get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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I do not know what makes a man more conservative, to know nothing but the present or nothing but the past.
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Regarded as a means, the business man is tolerable; as an end he is not so satisfactory.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.