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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
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The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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I do the best with what exists.
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No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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Power is as power does.
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.
John Kenneth Galbraith
