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 KEYNESIf 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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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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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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