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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
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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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Economy Humble Level Management Splendid
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong

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