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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Ideas shape the course of history.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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Brave Cheerful Generation Heart Mindset Symbol Traveling
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
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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The 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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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