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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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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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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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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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To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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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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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
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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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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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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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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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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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No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
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