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

John Maynard Keynes

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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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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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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