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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Category: Politics

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. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
  • 2. After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
  • 3. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.
  • 2. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
  • 3. When I was little I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
  • 2. But on second thought after I decreed the state of emergency I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
  • 3. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. My house is my refuge an emotional piece of architecture not a cold piece of convenience.
  • 2. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
  • 3. The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
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