John Maynard
John Maynard
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fail reputation succeed teaches wisdom worldly
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally
disgusting life love means money possession realities recognized somewhat
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens
banking pounds problem
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
numbers telephones remember
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
provision made shows
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
mathematics easier clear
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
theory-of-evolution may facts
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
numbers safety different
To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.
ought wild words
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.