The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As… — Minoru Mori Copy Share Image
Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage. — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to… — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to… — Charles Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
