It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIdeas shape the course of history.
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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 power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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