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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

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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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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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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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