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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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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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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've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
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No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
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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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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
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