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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."

"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
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