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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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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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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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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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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .
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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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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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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I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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