The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESLike all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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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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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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