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“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

John Kenneth Galbraith · Wisdom

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John Kenneth Galbraith

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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

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