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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.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Face People Selection Thinking Winner
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
If 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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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
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
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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Aware Himself Investor Risk Run
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Error Excessive Ideas National Power
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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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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Forecast Investment Marketing Prediction Speculation
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape

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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