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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight
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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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
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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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
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
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Aware Himself Investor Risk Run
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong

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