"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"

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John Maynard Keynes

#Information Quotes #Conclusion Quotes

“Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.”
“You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.”
“Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?" "You can say it's short for something." "For what? Sixty?”
“I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.”
“Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.”
“What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company
“Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.”
“I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

Source : Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.370

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