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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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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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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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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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I do the best with what exists.
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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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