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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

John Maynard Keynes

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Crash Ourselves Time
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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