“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Outer happiness has Diminishing Marginal Utility; the more it grows, the satisfaction decreases. Resort to inner happiness.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor -… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent.… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal.… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners,… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
