Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

J. K. Galbraith
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  1. Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  2. Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

  3. I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.

  4. People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

  5. In economics the majority is always wrong.

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