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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

John Maynard Keynes

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Advance Experience Provision
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
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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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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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