Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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