If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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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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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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