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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Life, Motivational, Jobs

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Life, Acceptance, Comfort
The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Life, Reality, Men
John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Inspirational, Life, Beauty
The New York Times Magazine, October 9, 1960.

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