The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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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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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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