For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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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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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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