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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes: Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
         

Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.


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But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.



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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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