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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith

