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" It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. "
Return to the River: Restoring Salmon Back to the Columbia River - Page 29
edited by - 2005 - 720 pages
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Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century

Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel - Comparative economics - 1991 - 172 pages
...Bureaucratic or market allocation are the only allocation options for modem economies. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense...thought. — John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society Experts and Instrumentalism Whatever combination of inequality orcoercion and competition or regimentation...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...and the grave turtles squeaked out." (The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner, 1960.) 2 It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense...troubled seas of thought. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, (b. 1908) US economist. The Affluent Society, ch. 11, set. 4(1958). Referring to the resistance of...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...and fight again to save the Party we love. GALBRAITH JK 19083775 The Affluent Society It is a far, hould be done to get them at work again. EDWARDS Murray D. 3151 Men of genius are the worst possibl 3776 The Affluent Society The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt. 3777 In all modem depressions,...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...nothing about sex. because I was always married. GALBRAITH JK 19081518 The Affluent Society It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. 1519 The Affluent Society The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt. 1520 More die in the...
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The Essential Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith - Business & Economics - 2001 - 329 pages
...see why the conventional wisdom resists so stoutly such change. It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. NOTES 1. JM Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," Essays in Persuasion (London: Macmillan,...
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Introduction to Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth Mitchell, Ron Medzon - Medical - 2005 - 744 pages
...at increased risk for astrocytoma or glioblastoma multiforme. Change in Mental Status It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense...troubled seas of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958 INTRODUCTION Elizabeth L Mitchell, MD Section Editor Patients who present with alterations in...
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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

Dany Nobus, Malcolm Quinn - Philosophy - 2005 - 274 pages
...whys and wherefores: on the logic of psychoanalytic discovery It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 131 Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts. Richard...
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The Mariner's Book of Days 2008

Peter H. Spectre - 2007 - 114 pages
...battleship Leonardo da Vinci, moored at the naval base in Taranto, Italy. Sunday 3 1 creo It in a far, fa better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...put out on the troubled seas of thought. — John Kennelh Calbraith FORMULA FOR DETERMINING THE LENGTH OF THE ANCHOR RODE TO BE CARRIED ON BOARD 1 fathom...
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