Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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 my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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