In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESHow long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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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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Men will not always die quietly.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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