The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Because there’s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
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
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at… — Paul G. Hoffman Copy Share Image
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most,… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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