"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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"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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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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