John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Eden Phillpotts
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
Dak Prescott
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
Patrick Ness
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
Earl Weaver
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
Carl Honore
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In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
Baba Kalyani
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It's time to close Gitmo.
Barack Obama
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
Karl Marx
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
Orson Scott Card
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.
Jack Layton
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He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
W. H. Auden
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Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
John Burroughs
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
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I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home
Norah Jones
