John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.
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Hark! to the hurried question of despair: 'Where is my child?'-an echo answers, 'Where?'
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
