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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself
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
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
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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Destination Infinite Nature Peace Place Promise
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
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

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