It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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 markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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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 power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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