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John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'" -
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Top 5 quotes from John Kenneth Galbraith
"Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next."
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"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations."
"Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks."
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"A grownup is a child with layers on."
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."
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