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Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in… — Thomas Sowell
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot
And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage… — Joan Rivers
I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's… — Felix Rohatyn
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it… — Al Ries
We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also… — Thoraya Obaid
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work… — Gautama Buddha
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world. — Metrodorus of Chios
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't… — Joel Garreau
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and… — Unknown Author
Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about whether there is… — Unknown Author
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a… — Bruce Barnbaum
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery. — Kevin Zraly
Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be… — Arjun Makhijani
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. — Jeff Goodell
The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major… — Byron Dorgan

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