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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
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However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
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The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.
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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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