Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

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