John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

John Maynard Keynes

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• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
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• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  

  Gary Lineker
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  • Twitter

• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
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• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
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• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • More
  • Object

• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Education
  • Step
  • Defeat

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Different
  • House
  • Kind

• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • History
  • Without
  • Defeat

• Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Israel
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• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Being
  • Defeat
  • Fears

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Say
  • Statement
  • Object

• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Pay
  • Escape
  • Employees

• Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Past
  • Leader

• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Object
  • One
  • Passive

• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Religion
  • Argument
  • Meeting

• My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Family
  • Films
  • Watch

• When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Argument
  • Defeat
  • Object