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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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How 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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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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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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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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