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The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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The Threat To Men Of Great Dignity,

John Kenneth Galbraith
The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.
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