John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I appreciate my international fans all over the world.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
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Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
