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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

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
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
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 long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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Essence Investor Opinion Practice Willing
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
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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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
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
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress

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