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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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John K. Galbraith
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.
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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
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Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
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