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John Kenneth Galbraith föddes den October 15th 1908 - Canadian-US economist
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 Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

 Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof

 Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

 Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

 Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

 Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

 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.

 If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

 If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong

 If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves

 If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

 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.

 In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

 In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

 In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less


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