I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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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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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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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