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The urge to consume is father...

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

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is a common tendency to...

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Marx profoundly affected thos...

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

When you see reference to a n...

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In numerous years following t...

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

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The ideas by which people . ....

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A more important antidote to ...

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

I feel very angry when I thin...

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There are days when the resul...

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A [New Yorker ] is what it ha...

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Those who had been riding the...

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A drastic reduction in weapon...

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In public administration good...

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Economic life, as always, is ...

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

If all else fails immortality...

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Smoking dope and hanging up C...

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Financial operations do not l...

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The man who is admired for th...

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

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Hermann Goering, Joachim von ...

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

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

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...

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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...

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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....