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If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
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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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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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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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
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Power is as power does.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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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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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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