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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
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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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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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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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
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No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
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Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
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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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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
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The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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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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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
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One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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