| 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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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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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 seas of thought. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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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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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. |
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- 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 justification for selfishness. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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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. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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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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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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