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Economic literature

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

1924

★ 6.9

Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed.

John Maynard Keynes

1945

★ 4.5

Speech · Political speech

Necessity hath no law.

Oliver Cromwell

1654

★ 3.7

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

The House of Feasting · 1653

★ 3.5

Religious literature

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

1802

★ 3.5

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

1845

★ 3.5

Essay · Economic literature

Marxian socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men and, through them, the events of history.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire · 1926

★ 3.5

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

The Go-Between · 1953

★ 3.5

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

1848

★ 3.5

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!"

Dorothy L. Sayers

1946

★ 3.5

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.

Dorothy L. Sayers

1947

★ 3.5

Essay · Economic literature

I believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire · 1926

★ 2.7

Necessity is the mother of invention.

1694

★ 1.9

Historical literature

Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

1879

★ 1.9

Economic literature

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

1919

★ 1.9

Economic literature

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

1919

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

1926

★ 1.9

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

1557

★ 1.9

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain; The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

1841

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

1930

★ 1.9

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