"The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all."

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Source : The End of Laissez-Faire pt. 4 (1926)

John Maynard Keynes

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“Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.”
“We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.”
“All the world is happy when Santa Claus comes.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “A Story Garden for Little Children”, p.48, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.”
“Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1938). “The Conquest of Civilization”
“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.”
“Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.”
“He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.”

Source : "Music fans celebrate Gershwin's many contributions". www.cnn.com. September 25, 1998.

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