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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— 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

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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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