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Highly Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing…
- There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
- I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles…
- 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…
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