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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
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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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
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 destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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