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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

John Maynard Keynes

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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The 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 find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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