Economics is a very dangerous science.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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 importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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