In the long run we are all dead.
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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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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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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 is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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