The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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