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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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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
— 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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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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