Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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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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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.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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