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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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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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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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Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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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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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.
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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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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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I do the best with what exists.
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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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