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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist [more author details]

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.: John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.: John Kenneth Galbraith
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.: John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.: John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.: John Kenneth Galbraith
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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.: John Kenneth Galbraith
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: 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.: John Kenneth Galbraith
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