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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Past, Errors, Giving

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Past, Yield, Ideas
John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Memories, Past, Appreciate
John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.17, Penguin

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