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" A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
Deepest
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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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" Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. "
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" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. "
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" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "
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" The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. "
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" A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. "
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" Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. "
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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. "
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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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" In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. "
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" There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. "
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" By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. "
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" Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. "
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