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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

John Maynard Keynes

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
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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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
In the long run we are all dead.
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Death Philosophy Wasted Time
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Economics Nation Necessary Poverty Problem Struggle
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
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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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction

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