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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
  • 2. Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great and every now and again they do and they are usually 70.
  • 3. In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

2 Amazing

  • 1. At 13 when I was a runaway I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention those girls could paint a face and I learned how because of them.
  • 2. No matter how loud the stadium is once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
  • 3. That show 'The Amazing Race' – is that about white people?

3 Anger

  • 1. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  • 2. Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust greed and anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  • 2. The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
  • 3. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
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