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
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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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