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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

John Maynard Keynes

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Direct Knowledge Point Probability True
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
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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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
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
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Fade Market Yourself
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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Believe Fair Investment Management Myself Right Time
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Belief Benefit Capital Man Nasty Reason Work
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
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
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax

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