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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

John Maynard Keynes

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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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