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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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