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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. — Mahatma Gandhi
Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are… — Barack Obama
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly… — Joseph Lowery
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to lie about who… — Tammy Baldwin
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling… — Ranjitsinhji
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens… — Helen Prejean
Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… — Victor Hugo
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less… — Barack Obama
Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less… — Barack Obama
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we… — W. Somerset Maugham
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top… — Frederick The Great
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Frederick Niecks
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities,… — David Ricardo
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — F. M. Scherer
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief

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