John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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No man is a hero in his own country.
John Monash -
To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.
