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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes: Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.
         

Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.


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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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