Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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