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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it.…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with… — David Brinkley
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can… — William Faulkner
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With… — Abraham Lincoln
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or… — Adam Smith
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such… — Unknown Author
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually… — Vince Lombardi
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which… — Vaclav Havel

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