"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
-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."
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-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."
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"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes."
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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