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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

~John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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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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War remains the decisive human failure.

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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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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: October 15th, 1908

Died: April 29th, 2006

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