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John Maynard Keynes Quotes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946

Topics

Future Time Ignorance Dark Defeat

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

Jennifer Doudna

Work Thinking Sometimes Always Away

I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'.

Jennifer Johnston

Good Day Think Want Lord Funeral

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.

Jeannette Rankin

Opportunity Remember You Go First

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

Good Cute Gift Think You Forget

I probably shouldn't live in New York.

Live New York New York

So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.

Women Small Jacket Right Size Tell

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.

Trisha Yearwood

Love Time People Sing Who Truly

I can't drink if I have to get up early, man. It kills me.

Man Me Early Drink Up Get

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Marriage Home Wife Me Evening Weird

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

Going Manhattan Clubs

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Car Control Political You Empires

I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

Light Happy Dark Person Try Break

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