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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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 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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If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.
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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
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In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful. The press was busy printing money.
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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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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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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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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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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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
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It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.
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However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
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