John Maynard Keynes Quotes
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I was raised by a strong single mother.
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I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
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Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
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I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.
