In the really hard cases you’re choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it’s hard to tell someone which one is which.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
~ Blaise Pascal
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
~ Henry James
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
~ Mark Twain
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It is true that when pride releases energies and serves as a spur to achievement, it can lead to a reconciliation with the self and the attainment of genuine self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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When one read’s Kierkegaard’s profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche’s amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.
~ Rollo May
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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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