Chess is a cure for headaches.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen 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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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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