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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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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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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.
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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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The spirit should never grow old.
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There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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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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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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