The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNever in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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