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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

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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Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.
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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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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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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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Economics is not an exact science.
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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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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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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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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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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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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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