The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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- By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.