Current Affairs Quotes

• Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

  Edgar Dale

  Time, Ignorance, History

  "Can you give the public what it wants?" by Edgar Dale, 1967.

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• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Ocean

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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• We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Sea Voyage, Venture

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

  Chris Cleave

  Life Is, Affair, Currents

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Personality, World, Chess

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Sports, Watches, Affair

  "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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• A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

  Harold MacMillan

  Successful, Political, Television

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• I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.

  Bruce Bruce

  Comedian, Doe, Affair

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, Government

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Death, Running

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Reading, Doing Nothing, Wildlife

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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