There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
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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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from 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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
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It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as b...
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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In the long run, we are all dead.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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