It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBy this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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