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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

John Maynard Keynes

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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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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