The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
~ Lao Zi
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
~ John Steinbeck
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Since no example of Leninist socialism is other than totalitarian and bureaucratic, one wonders how the doctrinaire ideologists can dismiss so disdainfully those who point out that the promise of socialism in freedom, while surely praiseworthy, remains a promise only, not something experienced in reality.
~ Jean-François Revel
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