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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
  2. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
  3. Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right …
  4. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
  5. It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
  6. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
  7. In economics, the majority is always wrong.
  8. The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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  • politics
  • power
  • history
  • ethics
  • memory

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