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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

John Maynard Keynes

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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Bank Known Myself People Understand University
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
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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Age Episode Man Progress
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
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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Act Consistent Optimism Realize
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
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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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
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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Borrow Ignorance Investor Large Money Operate Propose Safety Scale
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
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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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
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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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
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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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Art Finance Hospitality Ideas International Knowledge National Possible
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
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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Belief Benefit Capital Man Nasty Reason Work

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