In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the...

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the...

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge...

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves...

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves...

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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

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

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so,...

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so,...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the...

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.

Eat - well is drink - well's brother

Eat - well is drink - well's brother