“Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith 
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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