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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

John Maynard Keynes

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Difficult Necessary Pay Performance Service
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset

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