John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
