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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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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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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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Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the nuclear theologians ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
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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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To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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