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Things Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
- Some things were never meant to be recycled.
- Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
- The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
- Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
- Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in…
- You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
- In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence…
- You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
- The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to…
- Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle