Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

—John Maynard Keynes

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About John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist. His writings formed the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and refined earlier work...

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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

—John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

—John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

—John Maynard Keynes

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

—John Maynard Keynes

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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied, or reoccupied, by our real problems—the problems of life and of human relations.

—John Maynard Keynes

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

—Katherine Mansfield

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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.… Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year—and therefore did.

—Archibald MacLeish

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I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular… but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive.

—Annie Dillard

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We must return to nature and nature's god.

—Luther Burbank

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The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

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