He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings—feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous—to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.


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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you c...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in ...
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy th...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made,...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly d...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Production only fills a void that it has itself created
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost ever...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homele...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoi...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material p...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY
In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON
I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON
I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY