Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf 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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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 day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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