Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil. — Juicy J Copy Share Image
My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a… — Aaron Lines Copy Share Image
We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over — Andy Burnham Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
