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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Disappointment, Order, Expectations
"A life in our times: memoirs".

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Power, Expectations, United States
"The United States". New York magazine, November 15, 1971.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Gambling, People, Expectations
Source: progressive.org

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