Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe idea behind stamped money is sound.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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