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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.
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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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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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All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.
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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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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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Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
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