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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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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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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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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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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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Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
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No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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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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