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According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family. — Walter E. Williams
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the… — Walter E. Williams
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. — Thomas A. Edison
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would. — E. W. Howe
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like… — Peter De Vries
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish. — John Updike
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that… — Luciano De Crescenzo
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth. — Timothy Keller
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and… — Havelock Ellis
You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend. — Bill Cosby
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. — R. Buckminster Fuller
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. — Meryl Streep
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be… — Andy Grove
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses… — Steven Levy
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays

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