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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. 1908–2006)
  • "I shut my eyes in order to see."
    - Paul Gaugin (French Post-Impressionist Painter. 1848–1903)
  • "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind."
    - Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-American poet, artist and philosospher. 1883–1931)
  • "The House of Peers, thoughout the war
    Did nothing in particular
    And did it very well."
    - W.S. Gilbert (English dramatist, poet and librettist. 1836–1911) 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. 1874–1945) 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. 1882–1974)
  • "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
    - Samuel Goldwyn (Polish born film producer. 1882–1974)
  • "In two words - impossible."
    - Samuel Goldwyn (Polish born film producer. 1882–1974)
  • "I don’t 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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