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-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.“
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
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