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
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESExperience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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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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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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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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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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