"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.“
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"War remains the decisive human failure."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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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."
-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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"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes."
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"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy."
-Carly Fiorina
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"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise."
-Ron Wyden
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"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
-Carly Fiorina
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
-Gerald R. Ford
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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
-Bob Kane
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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