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" All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. "

John Kenneth 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. "

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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. "

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" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "

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" War remains the decisive human failure. "

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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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" There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. "

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" In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. "

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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. "

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" The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. "

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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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" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. "

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" Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. "

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" Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. "

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