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“Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

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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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