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Conscience is better served by a myth.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
Diplomat
Economist
Non-Fiction Writer
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John K. Galbraith
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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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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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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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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
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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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