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“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

Has Beens Wisdom Values Fall Three Politics Lost Economy Sacrifice Wind Amount Property Debt Liberalism Contracts Catastrophe Cautious Sowing Whirlwind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.”

Amount Significant Daily Life Subconscious Harbour

Author:Christy Turlington

“I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.”

Thinking Littles I Can Player Figures Amount Incredibles Technique Cult Equipment Bass Drummer Bass Players

Author:Ken Burns

“Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.”

Men Wells Real States Form Politics Effort Economy Amount Disease Solutions Liberalism Abandon Unhealthy Crippled Get Well Wheelchairs

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.”

“It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.”

People Giving Important Enough Running Race Economy Amount Limits Access Candidates

Author:Christie Hefner

“Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.”

Writing Technology Economy Information Huge Amount Phones Spending Checks More Money Cds Laptops Databases

Author:Jay Chiat

“You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.”

Atheism Amount Positive Atheism Absence Reverse

Book:Morning in the Burned House

Source: Morning in the Burned House

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.”

People Persons Shows Literature Amount Demand Injustice Show Me

Author:Frederick Douglass

“No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.”

Persons Earth Energy Amount Lazy Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.”

Thinking Needs Certain Waiting Amount Balance Gains Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.”

“I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.”

Ifs Evil Church Attention Trouble Atheism Amount Property Positive Atheism Accumulation

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.”

Believe Book Ideas Reason Term Religious Atheism Dangerous Amount No Reason Reviews Skeptic Dangerous Ideas

Author:Garrett Hardin

“If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.”

Ifs Want Should Doe Certain Energy Sex Realizing Amount Higher Losing Mysticism Drains Occult Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.”

Kind May Running Certain Grows Seeing Amount Balls Tired Golf Excitement Flags

Book:Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast

Source: Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast

“You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.”

Giving Certain Individual Buddhism Amount Access Stealing Grades Better Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.”

Believe Important Sometimes Philosophy Form Natural Views Atheism Theory Amount Mets Tradition Fundamentals Positive Atheism Guides Genuine Allegiance Scientism Natural Science Primacy

Book:Atheism and Theism

Source: Atheism and Theism

“The earth is alive. There are places on the earth that are very powerful. Meaning that on another dimensional level, there is an interfacing dimension where there is a crossover point between dimensions and a tremendous amount of energy is passing back and forth.”

Earth Energy Levels Powerful Alive Buddhism Amount Passing Passings Dimensions Back And Forth Very Powerful Crossover

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.”

People Thinking World Political Individual Process Party Worry Effects Changed Television Amount Political Parties

Author:Alexander Stille

“There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.”

People Believe Littles Enough Shows Actors Amount Performances Stress Small Amounts Live Performance

Author:Amy Poehler

“For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.”

Able Life Is Artist Individual Amount Mass Aspect Transparent Relatable

Author:Macklemore

“There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.”

Way Littles Loses Amount Couple Gains Getting Old Getting Older Absolutely Nothing Sour Bittersweet Wisdom And Experience

Author:Woody Allen

“Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Together Perfect Behinds Fronts Building Amount Scene Screens Teamwork Finite Circus Get Together Extravagant Behind The Scenes

Author:Joe Hahn

“There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.”

People Years Easy Tvs Huge Amount Sells Pilots

Author:Robert Ben Garant

“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.”

Thinking Way Trying Children Ideas Kids Guy House Difficult Sleep Amount Wake Up Raises Wings West Raised Right Thing Going To Sleep Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Adam Sandler

“People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.”

People Giving Amount

Author:David Brooks

“People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.”

People Giving May Interest Issues Amount

Author:David Brooks

“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.”

“I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Doe Real Care Film Guy Justice Amount Track Real Life I Care Portraying Right Track

Author:Joe Manganiello

“They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.”

“I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there and spend a nice amount of time because I always travel but for like a second. I never get to enjoy the places.”

Want Enjoy Nice Amount Green Ireland

Author:Selena Gomez

“I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.”

Thinking Difficult Levels Amount Decades Horrible Spots Candidates Legislation Transparent Money In Politics

Author:Rick Santelli

“I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.”

Doe Happens Waiting Amount Lays Patterns Relish

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.”

Giving Certain Figures Amount Giving Up Privacy Public Figures

Author:Jay Roach

“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

Ifs Writing Trying Helping Actors Situation Comedy Serious Amount Jokes Absurd Performing

Author:Mel Brooks

“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.”

People Believe States Government I Believe United Numbers United States Influence Amount Exercise Affair Small Numbers

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.”

Way Littles Facts Light Language Pleasure Cases Darkness Missing Amount Immense New Ways English Language Virginia Woolf Lamentation

Author:E. M. Forster

“The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.”

Men Eye Universe Natural Religious He Man Amount Harmony Wide Intimate His Eyes Contemplating Piety Eyes Wide Open

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.”

Way Art Growth Amount Population Substitutes

Book:The Simple Art of Murder

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

“I get cast gay a fair amount throughout my life. It's not the first time. Matt [Letscher] was kind of like, 'Jeff, um, I'm gonna pretend this is real easy and not a problem, but I've never done this at all.' And so you know, we were awkward for a while. And then he said, 'Let's go for it. Come on. I'm gonna pretend you're my girlfriend, my wife. Here we go.' And we had a lot of fun.”

Knows Firsts Kind Said Real Done Problem Fun Easy Wife Amount Gay First Time Fairs Casts My Wife Girlfriend Awkward My Girlfriend

Author:Jeff Perry

“The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.”

“Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.”

Dream Life Is Desire Passion Amount Our Dreams Fractions Small Amounts

Author:Paul Gauguin

“When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.”

Ifs Long Winning Force Fields Amount Battle Long Time Army Edges Dull Provision Transportation Supplies Blunt Insufficient

Author:Sun Tzu

“The amount of hot girls who come to signings is incredible!”

Girl Amount Hot Incredibles Signing Hot Girl

Author:Zayn Malik

“In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.”

Way Used College Amount My Friends Jimmy Harvey Rotation Jimmy Stewart

Author:Rich Sommer

“I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.”

Amount Harsh Hostile

Author:Jennifer Harrison

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