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John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat, Time, 1984

Posted on May 1, 2006 at 10:15 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Painful though it is, the best way to think and write is to do nothing else. One is then forced into effort as an escape from boredom and one's own personality.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat, A Life in Our Times, 1981

Posted on April 1, 2000 at 10:33 PM

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