Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The Ryan budget puts America on the wrong path and attempts to reduce our deficit solely on the backs of our nation's… — Albio Sires Copy Share Image
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. — Stuart Bowen Copy Share Image
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I'll keep reducing my trading size as long as I'm losing My money management techniques are extremely conservative. I never risk anything… — Randy McKay Copy Share Image
If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power… — Franco Modigliani Copy Share Image
The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious… — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health… — Abel Aganbegyan Copy Share Image
You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
