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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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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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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We will not tolerate any harassment of the other community.
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There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
