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Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- 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.
- The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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