"It is a commonplace of modern technology that……" — John Kenneth Galbraith
"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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286 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith has 286 quotes on this site.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when…
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his…
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When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often…
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A…
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There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the…
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or…
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then,…
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She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret…
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It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick…
— George Carlin
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very…
— William J. Clinton
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
— Blaise Pascal
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
— Cesare Pavese
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may…
— Samuel Smiles
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned…
— Christopher Fry
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