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This quotation examines the core nature of Death as articulated by John Kenneth Galbraith. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Death provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.

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"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."

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"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

— Jean-Paul Sartre
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"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

— Walt Whitman
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"I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain."

— LaToya Jackson
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"Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down."

— Reggie Watts
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