Curious Quotations
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- "There are two kinds of economists: those who don't know the future and those who don't know they don't know."
- J.K. Galbraith (Canadian liberal economist. 19082006)
- "I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gaugin (French Post-Impressionist Painter. 18481903)
- "I have learned silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind."
- Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-American poet, artist and philosospher. 18831931)
- "The House of Peers, thoughout the war
Did nothing in particular
And did it very well."
- W.S. Gilbert (English dramatist, poet and librettist. 18361911) Iolanthe, 1882.
- "No idea is so antiquated
that it was not once modern.
No idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated."
- Ellen Glasgow (US novelist. 18741945) Delivered in a 1936 address to the Modern Language Association.
- "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
- Samuel Goldwyn (Polish born film producer. 18821974)
- "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn (Polish born film producer. 18821974)
- "In two words - impossible."
- Samuel Goldwyn (Polish born film producer. 18821974)
- "I dont know what it is to be a devout atheist any more than what it would be to be a devout non-stamp collector."
- A. C. Grayling (English philosopher. 1949 ) Speaking from the audience of the 2010 Reith Lecture, "What We'll Never Know" by Martin Rees (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sp194).
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