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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books
John Kenneth Galbraith
Bad book
Repent
Ignorance
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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Leaders
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Foolish
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements
John Kenneth Galbraith
Man
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth
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War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
War
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Capitalism
Exploits
Socialism
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Standard
Beauty
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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read
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
Wealth
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth
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II’m a musician I don’t want to be a politician, the way I see it, is for the political parties prove themselves and we will all be happy.
Femi Kuti
A musician
A politician
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I’m literate to know that Nigeria hasn’t built its refineries, since 1999 till date and every Government past and present keep giving excuses.
Femi Kuti
I'm literate
To know
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I have NEVER and will NEVER affiliate with any political party that I don’t feel has the genuine interest of the people of Nigeria at heart.
Femi Kuti
Have never
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
John Knowles
Wars
Generations
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.
John Knowles
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So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all
John Knowles
More
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.
John Knowles
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You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
John Knowles
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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
John Knowles
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World
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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me
John Knowles
Deceived
Happiness
Peace
World
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves
John Knowles
Teenagers
Today
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A man with God is always in the majority.
John Knox
Man
God
Always
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In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
John Knox
Youth
Age
Battles
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O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
John Knox
Lord
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God
John Knox
Prayer
Earnest
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God
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
John Knox
You
Antagonize
Influence
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Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death
John Knox
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Christ
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Death
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The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance
John Knox
Scriptures
God
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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God
John Knox
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God
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Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
John Knox
Lord
Give
Scotland
Die
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
John M. Ford
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.
John M. Ford
Books
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
John M. Ford
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You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything
John Malkovich
You
People
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Anything
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Anybody doing something brings something to it.
John Malkovich
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Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
John Malkovich
Fashion
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything
John Malkovich
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I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
John Malkovich
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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich
Understand
Somebody
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich
Like
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Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
John Malkovich
People
Die
Time
Live
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The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
John Marshall
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Equal
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