The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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 considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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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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