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- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. - John Kenneth Galbraith/ Gabraith I'll moider da bum. - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland All right, I will learn to read, but when I have, I never, never shall. - author David Garnet, at age four The Warren Commission thought they had an open-and-shut case. Three bullets, one assassin. But two unpredictable things happened that day that made it virtually impossible. One, the eight-millimeter home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder while standing by the grassy knoll. Two, the third wounded man, James Tague, who was knicked by a fragment, standing near the triple underpass. The time frame, five point six seconds, determined by the Zapruder film, left no possibility of a fourth shot. So the shot or fragment that left a superficial wound on Tague's cheek had to come from the three shots fired from the sixth floor depository. That leaves just two bullets. And we know one of them was the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy. So now a single bullet remains. A single bullet now has to account for the remaining seven wounds in Kennedy and Connelly. But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the Warren Commission chose to endorse the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Spector, one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people. We've come to know it as the "Magic Bullet Theory." This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of a lone assassin. Once you conclude the magic bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, you'd have to conclude that there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition, there had to be a conspiracy. - Jim Garrison 640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates in 1981 The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle, when a journalist asked him if he was happy Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. - German Proverb Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. - Michael J. Gelb Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part. - Michael J. Gelb Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. - Michael J. Gelb Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. - Michael J. Gelb Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. - Michael J. Gelb Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. - Michael J. Gelb A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. - Michael J. Gelb Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. - Martha Gellhorn Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Wherever your life may lead you, I will always be here when you get back. - Amy Giauque One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - André Gide Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - André Gide Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. - George Gilder The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Giraudoux One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold Glasow The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. - Arnold Glasow Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. - Arnold Glasow It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Arthur Godfrey Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. - Gail Godwin When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe (1749-1832) Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden. - Goethe Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Goethe There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Goethe A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. - Mikhail Gorbachov To love what we do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? - Katharine Graham The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain ordinary people. - Senator Phil Gramm No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. - Harry Gray A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. - Sidney Greenberg Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. - Geof Greenleaf A man is measured by the size of things that anger him. - Geof Greenleaf Good leaders must first become good servants. - Robert Greenleaf A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. - Greek Proverb You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. - Matt Groening Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. - Charles H. Grosvenor Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. - Jessica Guidobono You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. - Sacha Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie |