In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever going to be as important or as exciting as a baby. Everyone has their highs and lows, but if… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I came up with this idea to create an app. And the premise of the app is this: every problem in the… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm more of a short-hair girl; short hair is a lot more low-maintenance than long hair. And when you're in front of… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?"… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are… — Elaine Chao Copy Share Image
We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't -… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image