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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. ↗

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

— 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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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— 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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I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

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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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