In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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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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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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