John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Quotes to Explore
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
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Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.
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If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.
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I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
