Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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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.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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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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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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