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“You will find that the state is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

American Economist

“You can live a long time on chocolate and wine.”

Unknown

Visit Paso Robles, CA

“People have a tremendous capacity to rationalize, especially when infected by ideology.” 

Eugene Genovese

US Historian.

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? 

No one knows – It’s never been tried.

Unknown

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

Woody Allen

American Actor

“In the centuries following the Peloponnesian War, Athens became the first in a long line of senescent Western powers to suffer the ignominious transformation from world power to open-air theme park, famous only for its arts, its architecture, its schools and its past.”

William J Bernstein, Author

A Splendid Exchange

“…anyone who believes that governments are in control of economies is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.”

John Gribben, Author

Deep Simplicity

“It is easier to wax elegiac for the life of a peasant when you do not have to use a long-drop toilet.”

Matt Ridley, Author

The Rational Optimist (p. 12).

“I try to give my children enough money to do something, but not enough money that they can do nothing.”

George Clooney

as the main character in the movie Descendants.

Its a very good movie about inheritance in Hawaii