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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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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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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
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Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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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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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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I do the best with what exists.
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We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
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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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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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