John Maynard Keynes Quotes
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
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The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
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After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.
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The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
