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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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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. Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
  • 2. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
  • 3. I must confess I was born at a very early age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
  • 2. I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
  • 3. Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.

3 Anger

  • 1. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work and for the work I might be capable of.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. It's a very difficult thing for people to accept seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
  • 2. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 3. Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today ethics moral.
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