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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Accomplishment Blame Fact Master Obstinate Politician
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
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
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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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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