The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that… — Nessa Rapoport Copy Share Image
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
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It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
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We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“Grief was the deal God struck with the angel of death, who wanted an unpassable river to separate the living from the… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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