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John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958) US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - ? )
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Meetings are indispensable when you don΄t want to do anything.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.



Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it΄s just the opposite.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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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