I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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By 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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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