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John Kenneth Galbraith

"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

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"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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Donna Grant

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Donna Grant

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

Wisdom

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

Art

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

People

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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."

Money

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

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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."

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

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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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