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" Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. "
John Maynard Keynes
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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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" Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. "
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