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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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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.
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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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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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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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A wrong decision isn't forever it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever they can never be retrieved.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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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 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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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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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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.
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