The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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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
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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