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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

John Maynard Keynes

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Distribution Economy Income Mistake Outstanding Wealth
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
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

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