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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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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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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Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.
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Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
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Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
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It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirty-six-line poem. It seemed like the poem came back the next day: no letter, nothing.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
