Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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.
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Men will not always die quietly.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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 introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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