"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."

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