"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.“
-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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"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments."
-Donny Osmond
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"To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise."
-Dave Eggers
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"It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business."
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