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Modern Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
- The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to…
- It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
- No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control…
- 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…
- In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
- The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
- 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 modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov