John Maynard Keynes Quotes
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
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Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
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He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
