For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true?… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able… — James Victore Copy Share Image
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I specially want to have young women not to wait as I did until my children were grown, but young women to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it… — Alana Beard Copy Share Image
