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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
In the long run we are all dead.
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Death Philosophy Wasted Time
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
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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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
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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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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