All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThis 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 biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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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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