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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)
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