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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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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 privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
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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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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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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.
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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.
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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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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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Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
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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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I do the best with what exists.
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