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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

John Maynard Keynes

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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

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