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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I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
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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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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
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All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That, of course, is the approach to the Bible that fundamentalists take. And that’s one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.
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It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.
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A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.
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Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
