Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . .… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did… — Michael G. Rubin Copy Share Image
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce.… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
We are going to have an integrated plan and work closely between commerce and treasury to make sure that we drive growth… — Steve Mnuchin Copy Share Image
You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
![“The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. [...] if you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am […]'. There's a certain…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/692/lorrie-moore-870_art_the-detachment-of-the-artist-is-kind-of_1687843.png)
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