Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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