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• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
  -- Galbraith's Law...
• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
  --John Kenneth Galbraith...
• Galbraith's Law of Human Nature: Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoy
• Economics, n.: Economics is the study of the value and meaning of J.
  K. Galbraith ... -- Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...
• Economics, n.: Economics is the study of the value and meaning of J.
  K. Galbraith ... -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...
• A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high sense of consistency.
  -- J. K. Galbraith...