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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

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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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
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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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
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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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
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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