John Maynard Keynes Quotes
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
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You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
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I have an immigrant mentality, which is that the job can be taken away at any time, so make sure you earn it every day...immigrants come here they have no safety net-zero. I landed here with $500 in my pocket. I had no one here to pay for me.
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We need a continuing presence in space.
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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
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I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
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I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
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I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
