"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Art, Politics

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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

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

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"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

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