One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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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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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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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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I 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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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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