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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

John Maynard Keynes

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
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
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Government Hide Mistake Money
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
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
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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Forecast Investment Marketing Prediction Speculation
If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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Act Consistent Optimism Realize
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Capitalism Economy Extreme Manage Object Thinking Wisdom
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Accomplishment Blame Fact Master Obstinate Politician
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
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 facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
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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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
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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Face People Selection Thinking Winner

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

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