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John Maynard Keynes Quotes: The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
         

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.


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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.



The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

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