"In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic."

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Source : John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

John Maynard Keynes

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“Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.”
“I always think that Iâ€™m still this 13-year old boy that doesnâ€™t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when Iâ€™ll really have to do it.”
“Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.”
“He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.”
“I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.â€™ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
“A good song receives love forever.”
“There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!”

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