The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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 glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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