John Maynard Keynes Quotes

For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.

John Maynard Keynes

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Taste
  • Meat

• It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Vision
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• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
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• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Music
  • Language
  • Audience

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Up
  • Effort

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Kids
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• I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Fly

• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  

  Kanye West
  • Writing
  • History
  • Busy

• Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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  • Back

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!

  

  Larry Wall

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

  

  Johannes Stark
  • Motion
  • Electricity
  • Quanta

• It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People
  • Trust
  • Opinion

• 'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • May
  • True

• I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

  

  Aubrey Newman
  • Learning
  • Skill
  • Demonstrated

• I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Medication
  • Replacement
  • Transplant

• For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.

  

  John Maynard Keynes