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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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