John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

John Maynard Keynes

• Integrity
• Contact
• Individuals
• Discretionary authority

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• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

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• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

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• Tension is the great integrity.

  

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• As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

  

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• It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

  

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• Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

  

  Sam Rayburn
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• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  

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• The country does not function with sharpness, it functions according to the constitution, and it will continue to function according to constitutional integrity. Sharpness is for elections only, not for running the country.

  

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• Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake.'

  

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• He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.

  

  Aaron Copland
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• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  

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• My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

  

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• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  

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• Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

  

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• In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.

  

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• Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

  

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

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• If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

  

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• Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can't become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

  

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• Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

  

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Integrity
  • Contact
  • Individuals