Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. - John Kenneth Galbraith - Quotesmemo.com

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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

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