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John Kenneth Galbraith

"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.”
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
“It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic.”
“The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.”
“Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.”
“It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan
“Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.”

Source : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
“The best investment opportunities are often scary.”

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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