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" Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. "
Apt
Opinion
Interested
" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "
Necessary
Study
Opinion
" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "
Important
Process
Wealth
" Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. "
Belief
Everyone
Good
" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "
Education
Incompetent
Indifferent
" For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. "
Pretend
Our
Little
" Ideas shape the course of history. "
History
Inspirational
Shape
" I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. "
Nothing
Man
Past
" If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. "
Humble
Get
Economists
" In the long run we are all dead. "
Long
Long Run
Dead
" It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. "
Good
Dangerous
Interests
" It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. "
Progress
Foolish
Far
" I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. "
Think
Government
Criminal
" Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. "
Wiser
Seated
President
" Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. "
Misleading
Long
Guide
" Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. "
Security
Construction
Love
" Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. "
Mind
Nothing
Our
" Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. "
Others
Successful
Investing
" The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. "
Taxes
Reward
Intellectual
" 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. "
Heart
Religion
Problems
" The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. "
Success
Beautiful
Capitalism
" The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. "
Old
Difficulty
New
" 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. "
Ideas
Disruptive
May
" The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. "
Importance
Present
Future
" There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. "
Wrong
Sometimes
Found
" The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. "
Future
Ignorance
Time
" Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. "
Little
Ought
Thoughts
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