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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

John Maynard Keynes

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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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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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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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