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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

John Maynard Keynes

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Affair Death Guide
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Destination Infinite Nature Peace Place Promise
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
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
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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Brave Cheerful Generation Heart Mindset Symbol Traveling
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Borrow Ignorance Investor Large Money Operate Propose Safety Scale
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

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