"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.“
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
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"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
-Frank Waters
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"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
-Christian Cooke
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
-Anne Boyd
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"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
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"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons
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