Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.


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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an in...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, both ar...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, ...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but th...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the l...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with ...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different co...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has ...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the a...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
In the long run, we're all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has r...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers wh...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin'...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those bro...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, e...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Investing is the one sphere of life and activity where victory, security and success is always to th...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene.
SGT. STEVE MAYNARD