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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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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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 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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Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
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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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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
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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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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
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