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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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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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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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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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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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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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[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.
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A wrong decision isn't forever it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever they can never be retrieved.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
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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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If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to trickle down economics).
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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive (Free Market Fraud, January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
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At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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