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Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“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.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was a renowned economist known for his research on economic cycles, market structures, and government policies. His works have had a profound impact on economic theory and policy practice. more

“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.”

Way Writing School Artist Language Movement Painting Poet Novelists Irritating Appreciative Allegory

Author:A. S. Byatt

“I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.”

Giving Should Desire Asks Glad I've Learned I Have Learned Things I've Learned

Author:Andy Rooney

“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”

Sometimes Certain Events Bitter

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.”

Religious Relation Absolutes Profound Paradise Unhappiness Aspire Discomfort Dissatisfaction Fragility Incapacity

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.”

Suffering Pay Knowing Luck Missions Unhappy Ignorant Unhappiness Unconsciousness

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.”

Trying Influence Style Admire Relate

Author:Phil McGraw

“If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean

Author:Phil McGraw

“The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.”

Two Perfect Speech Jokes Distance

Book:Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary

Source: Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary

“Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.”

Looks Challenges Argument Reputation Profundity

Author:Rene Descartes

“Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.”

Mind Reason Light Certain Pure Intuition Arise Conception Deductions

Author:Rene Descartes

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