Character Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

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

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending…

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Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see…

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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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