Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you… — Wade Schalles Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will… — Plato Copy Share Image
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the… — Friedrich Naumann Copy Share Image
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to win. Donald Trump is going to win because in the end, the country is not going to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size,… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill… — Craig Johnston Copy Share Image
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
