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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.

John Maynard Keynes

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
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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Face People Selection Thinking Winner
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
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
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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Ideas Origin Party Politics
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
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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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Attractive General Ground Investment Opinion Principle
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success

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