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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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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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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
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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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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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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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