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Clearly the most unfortunate p...

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

If you feed enough oats to the...

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to 'trickle down' economics).

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The happiest time of anyone's ...

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

It is a commonplace of modern ...

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The real accomplishment of mod...

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

All successful revolutions are...

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

She is a reflection of comfort...

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Economists are economical, amo...

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

It is not necessary to adverti...

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

My rule on honorary degrees ha...

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Had the Bible been in clear st...

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Banking may well be a career f...

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is little that can be sa...

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Faced with having to change ou...

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Preservationists are the only ...

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Pundits forecast not because t...

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The threat to men of great dig...

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Decision has greater virtue an...

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The oldest problem in economic...

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Financial capacity and politic...

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....