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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 power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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