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John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

Art

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."

Money

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

People

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

Wisdom

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

Choice

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

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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."

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