If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWords ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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