Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll 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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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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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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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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