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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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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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Power is as power does.
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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.
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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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