Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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 social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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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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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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