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“Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.”

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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

“The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.”

States United Consciousness Class United States Conviction Extremes Familiar Superiors Versions Speakers Traveler Class Consciousness

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.”

Ifs Self Death Students Concepts Dresses Intelligence Intellect Dirty Not Interested Ragged Self Concept Tidying Up

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”

“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”

Men Mind Littles Wisdom Age Lying Faith Reading Belief Grows Knowledge Prejudice Spread Spots Grease

Author:James Truslow Adams

“... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.”

Knows May Matter Moral Doubt Certainty Sufficient Behaviour

Author:Rene Descartes

“Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.”

Thinking Wells Desire Difficult Common Please Common Sense

Author:Rene Descartes

“I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Love Looks Eye Faces Lost Clear And Love Sight Mirrors Like Me Your Face

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

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Author:A. E. Housman

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