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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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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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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The spirit should never grow old.
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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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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
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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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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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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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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
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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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We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
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