That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one … - John Kenneth Galbraith

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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

John Kenneth Galbraith

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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Florence Nightingale

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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Michael Chertoff

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.

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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

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William Carlos Williams

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.

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