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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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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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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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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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All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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