Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it… — William Hague Copy Share Image
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks… — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image
Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where… — Carl Pope Copy Share Image
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent… — Moses Harrison Copy Share Image
I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about.… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image