John Maynard Keynes Quotes
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
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Im too hung for womens underwear.
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As you can see, visually, with your eyes.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.
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Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.'
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The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
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I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
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Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
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You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
