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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

John Maynard Keynes

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
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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Government Hide Mistake Money
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
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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Confidence Existence Expectation Forecast Known Prediction
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
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
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

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