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| Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| In economics, the majority is always wrong. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Without a struggle, there can be no progress. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| The soul that is within me no man can degrade. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| If there is no struggle, there is no progress. |
Frederick Douglas |
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| The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple |
Eugene Kennedy |
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| The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. |
Eugene Kennedy |
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| You may delay, but time will not. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Time is money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Lost time is never found again. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Diligence is the mother of good luck. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Energy and persistence conquer all thing. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| No nation was ever ruined by trade. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Remember that time is money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He does not possess wealth it possesses him. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| There never was a good war, or a bad peace. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| There is no little enemy. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| The doors of wisdom are never shut. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Well done is better than well said. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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