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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

John Maynard Keynes

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Art Finance Hospitality Ideas International Knowledge National Possible
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
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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Confidence Existence Expectation Forecast Known Prediction
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
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
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Distribution Economy Income Mistake Outstanding Wealth
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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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
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
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
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 engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction

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