The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization --… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be… — Ron Dennis Copy Share Image
The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year,… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
