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

~John Kenneth Galbraith

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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

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

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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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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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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: October 15th, 1908

Died: April 29th, 2006

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