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Needs Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to…
- Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the…
- Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the…
- Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could…
- Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;…
- If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
- A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs…
- 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…
- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey