"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.“
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
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"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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