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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.

John Maynard Keynes

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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Government Hide Mistake Money
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Economics Nation Necessary Poverty Problem Struggle
The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Face People Selection Thinking Winner
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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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
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

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