The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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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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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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