There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
From John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
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