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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But… — Colin Fletcher
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers.… — Barack Obama
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use… — Walt Whitman
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So… — Milton Friedman
The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade… — Milton Friedman
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Unknown Author
Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur… — Dennis Kucinich
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation… — John Conyers
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. — Henry David Thoreau
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan
There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes… — John Maynard Keynes
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an… — Abraham Lincoln
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises
From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and… — Unknown Author
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the… — Ayn Rand
Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. — Mahatma Gandhi

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