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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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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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I do the best with what exists.
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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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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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 you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
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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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No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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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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