Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
From John Maynard Keynes
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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