The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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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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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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