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“All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.”

Government Cost Shapes Projects Mausoleum

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

Mean War States Social Term Military Type Cost Shapes Destruction Function Productions Readiness Drained Just War Cost Of War

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”

Government Values Interest Community Clear Cost Shapes Behavior Alternatives Perceive Corporations Efficient Prevailing

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.”

Giving Mind Littles Home House Worry Return Couple Cost Shapes Generous Seats

Author:Ivor Novello

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Ifs Knows Needs Self Hard Names Loss Steps Trouble Strange Cost Shapes Strongest Latent Activate Nectar

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems