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• It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• It is far safer to be feared than loved. -- Machiavelli
• A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high sense of consistency.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• As a man of more than average caution, I have never felt absolutely secure until Evans and Novak have spoken.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith