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All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
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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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
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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
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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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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
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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
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth
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
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.
John Knowles
Peace
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
John Knowles
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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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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God
John Knowles
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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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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
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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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me
John Knowles
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves
John Knowles
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A man with God is always in the majority.
John Knox
Man
God
Always
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Let no day slip over without some comfort received of the Word of God
John Knox
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In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
John Knox
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O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
John Knox
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God
John Knox
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
John Knox
You
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Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death
John Knox
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The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance
John Knox
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I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit
John Knox
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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God
John Knox
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Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
John Knox
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