Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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