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John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. "

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" If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. "

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" If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. "

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" Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. "

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" War remains the decisive human failure. "

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" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

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" Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. "

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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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" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "

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" Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. "

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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. "

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" In economics, the majority is always wrong. "

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" Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "

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