The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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