There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that… — Denis Halliday Copy Share Image
What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of… — Gary Ryan Copy Share Image
People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
In the world of traditional economics, it shouldn't matter whether you use an opt-in or opt-out system. So long as the costs… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image