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Simple Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could…
- But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
- Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
- Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
- The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not…
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