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

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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About John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, 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...

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.

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I have
Immortal longings in me.

—William Shakespeare

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The first condition of immortality is death.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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