John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
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I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
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China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
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In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem....Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.
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Ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιεί-ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλοςκαὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
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I didn’t really believe I had 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA.' These were just jokes.
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I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
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I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much.
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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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There were endless possibilities, not out of reach.
