“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.” EndsMightRunningKindnessDependsAccountsCurrentsStrangerEmpiresDeficitAmerican Empire Author:Nouriel Roubini
“Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveLooksDifferentHelpingHappensPlansDependsTruth IsAccountsBasesSavingUnexpectedLive ByRetirementBelieve In GodTrust In GodSavingsGood HealthRefrigeratorsLukewarmNeed GodSavings AccountsSomething Unexpected Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.” IfsWellsDoeImaginationBusinessDependsTaxesPercentGainsAccountsInvestmentResponseRateSavingQuartersEarningSavingsGroverSavings Accounts Author:Warren Buffett
“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.” PeopleWorldWayWantWellsKindPersonsInterestJusticeViewsPrinciplesKnowingAtheismEffectsDependsMoralityTruth IsAccountsAtheistWell BeingJustifyDedicatedLive Your Life Author:Steven Pinker
“The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.” MeanEndsCountryWantedLastsScienceCenturyMovementDependsAmountMembersResearchAccountsMathematicsSpreadAstronomyExcitementBranchesDepartmentRemarkableRoutinePreciseChillMeasurementCalculationsSystematicNineteenth CenturySmall Amounts Author:John Herschel
“We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.” SeemsTodayScienceSecurityDependsTomorrowWeaponsAccountsCaughtRuinsCyclesMaterialismViciousVicious CyclesRegimentation Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.” KnowsWorldGivingBelievePhilosophyTurnsLanguageViewsClearDependsGainsAccountsPhilosophicalStructureMediumsDiscoveringOur ThoughtsTurn-onSystematicExplicitClear View Author:Michael Dummett