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- Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
- Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
- Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…
- If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.
- We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
- As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't…
- Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems…
- From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view,…
- In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany.…
- In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically…
- Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks…
- Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk…
- Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble…
- Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and…
- What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle