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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."

"If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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