#pro

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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