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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

Results from Classic Quotes:

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.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
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.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)

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