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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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John K. Galbraith
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
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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 the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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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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To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
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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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