There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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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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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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