The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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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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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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