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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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Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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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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Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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Economics is not an exact science.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
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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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We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
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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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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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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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