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Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."
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"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will."
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral"
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"People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
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"Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next."
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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 per"
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
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"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
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"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
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"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong."
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