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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
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It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
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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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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
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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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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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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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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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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