#we

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that. ↗

— 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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— 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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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