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" Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" 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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" There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. "

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" All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. "

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" By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. "

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" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

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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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" Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. "

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" The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. "

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" Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "

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" A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. "

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