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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
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 friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
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
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
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 am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
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

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