John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

John Maynard Keynes

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  

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• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
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• I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • Think
  • New York

• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Death
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  • Enough

• I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Will

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
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• I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Long
  • Home
  • Idea

• I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Feels
  • Defined

• He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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  • Frustration

• What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

  

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• The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
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• Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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  • Ends
  • Finals

• Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.

  

  Camillo Golgi
  • Believe
  • Black
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• The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

  

  Willard Scott
  • World
  • Nice
  • Air

• I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Want
  • Politician

• I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Feels
  • Audience
  • Interest

• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Job
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  • Barrel

• Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Faces
  • Investment
  • Photographs