We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists],… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to… — William Booth Copy Share Image
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes,… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes.… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is… — Lawrence Solomon Copy Share Image
“Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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
