For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy,… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Once you have a handle on loving yourself, you can practice sharing that love with others. You’ve probably been taught to reserve… — Dossie Easton Copy Share Image
We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System,… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day… — William James Copy Share Image
If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve;… — William Law Copy Share Image
The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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