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 love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
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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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Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
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I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
