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Both we and the Soviets face t...

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Get the process of negotiation...

Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the 'nuclear theologians' ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The huge capacity to purchase ...

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Talk of revolution is one of a...

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In the conventional wisdom of ...

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

From the spring of 1941, I con...

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

We talk of the enormous virtue...

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

I think without a doubt, that ...

I think without a doubt, that what is called 'financial genius' is merely a rising market.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

I would put primary emphasis o...

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Nothing so denies a person lib...

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

If you're rich you can buy boo...

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

When people put their ballots ...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Among all the world's races, s...

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is something wonderful i...

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is an insistent tendency...

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The urge to consume is fathere...

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The individual serves the indu...

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Economists, on the whole, thin...

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Authorship of any sort is a fa...

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

According to the experience of...

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....