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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

#conventional wisdom #enemy #events #ideas #march

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ↗

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

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