John Maynard Keynes Quotes
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
John Maynard Keynes
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
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My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.
Landon Donovan
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
Natalie Portman
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
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The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
Gaston Caperton
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
Fernando Pessoa
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.
Walter Benjamin
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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
Albert Camus
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I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
Fred Wilson
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The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
Deborah Tall
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I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, "Wow, there's so much great TV, and they're telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it's a healthy, exciting, thriving medium - that's where I need to be."
Nick Antosca
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The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
John C. McGinley
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I travel a lot.
James Rosenquist
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
John Maynard Keynes
