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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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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Writing is a long and lonesome business back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
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There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
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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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One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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