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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes: If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
         

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.


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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.



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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.



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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.



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