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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

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
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
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
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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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
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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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
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
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility

All 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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