Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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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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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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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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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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