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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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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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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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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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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
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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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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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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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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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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
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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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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
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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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