John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.
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It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
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There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
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I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity-a waste of precious time and effort.
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I give a goddamn if I never sell anotha millaI'll take my ass right back to silla hilla billaCompounds, come down, every day sell yayJust like the old days stack anotha mill up
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
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If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
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Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.
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In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.
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It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
