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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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Economist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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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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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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I do the best with what exists.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
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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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Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.
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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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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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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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Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
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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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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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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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