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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
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
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
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
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
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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Gold History International Method Standard

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