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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

John Maynard Keynes

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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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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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$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret

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