Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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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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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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