"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.“
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
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"War remains the decisive human failure."
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"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
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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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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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