John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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I always like and appreciate the support for the fans; I am very grateful to everyone who supports me.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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So if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does!
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
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There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
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At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
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Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
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The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
