John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

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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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• 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.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• 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.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Person
  • Calling
  • Journalist

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• 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.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Stories
  • Kiss
  • Terrible

• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Democracy
  • View
  • Bed

• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Freedom
  • Simple
  • Tolerance

• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hurry

• When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Reading

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• I love [Kim Kardashian] nude selfies. Like, I love the ones from the side, the back ones, and the front. I just love seeing her naked.

  

  Kanye West
  • Sides
  • Naked
  • Kim

• Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Forever

• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people. . .

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Cause
  • Maintain

• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
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