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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Topics

Art Politics Possible Between

The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

Battle Army Defeated More Half Than

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Someone Person Moral Places Anything

We're actually building onto the house to make it bigger because we want to start a family.

Family Building Start House Want

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

Famous Whatever Point Ground Complex

Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

Russell T Davies

Tea People Choices You Television

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Food Grass Eat Hungry Pigs Source

I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

Dance Think You Kid Arts Going

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

Christine Pelosi

Mistakes Man Baseball Team Need

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

Colson Whitehead

Writing You Want Horror Way Own

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Will Never Ability Up Catch Demand

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Man World Will Him Without Complete

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Will Mean Liars May Us Exist

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