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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.

~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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: October 15th, 1908

Died: April 29th, 2006

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