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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
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John K. Galbraith
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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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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There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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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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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
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All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
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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.
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The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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