When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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