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John Kenneth Galbraith
: It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
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Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
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Sir Max Beerbohm :
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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Carl Jung :
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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