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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Difficult Necessary Pay Performance Service
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself

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