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John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

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"Failures make character, not success."

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"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

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"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

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"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

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"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

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"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
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"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
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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."
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"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
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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."
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