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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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John K. Galbraith
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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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 urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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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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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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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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I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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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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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
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