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.
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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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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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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 zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.
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I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
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The only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of fortune is to recall the catastrophes of others.
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Life is a roller-coaster, so you never know what's gonna happen.
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
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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.
