Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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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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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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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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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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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