Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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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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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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