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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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Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the nuclear theologians ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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I do the best with what exists.
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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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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.
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