Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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?
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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