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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

John Maynard Keynes

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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
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
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
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
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction

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