"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."

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Source : John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Kenneth Galbraith

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.”
“I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.”
“People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.”
“It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.”
“Happiness is a natural state of being.”
“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”
“It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.”
“You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.”

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