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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
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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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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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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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If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
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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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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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