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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." — John Galbraith
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"If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves" — John Galbraith
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does." — John Galbraith
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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" — John Galbraith
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"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." — John Galbraith
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"We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us" — John Galbraith
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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" — John Galbraith
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"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled." — John Galbraith
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting." — John Galbraith
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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." — John Galbraith
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Economy    Government   

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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." — John Galbraith
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect." — John Galbraith
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong." — John Galbraith
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"When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it." — John Galbraith
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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." — John Galbraith
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"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much." — John Galbraith
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Doctrine    Twentieth Century   

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"In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent" — John Galbraith
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." — John Galbraith
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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not." — John Galbraith
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"Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied." — John Galbraith
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"In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less" — John Galbraith
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