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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive (Free Market Fraud, January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.
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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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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
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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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It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
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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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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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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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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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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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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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