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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes: The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
         

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.


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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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