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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Four quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth 'Ken' Galbraith, OC (Station, Ontario, October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
 Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. 
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 Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. 
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 Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. 
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 The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. 
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