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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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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— 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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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