“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.” DoeHas BeensWholeHappensWould BeLosesLossEconomyGroupsPossibilityParticularHigherGainsAcceptableFixingTransactionsGains And Losses Author:Thomas Sowell
“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.” PassionHouseInterestLossGroupsCardsRuinsTemplesEmpiresGamblingSquaresIndifferentInfantSpectatorsIvory Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” ArtTodayFormIndividualLossMusicGroupsJazzContact Author:Dave Brubeck
“As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.” PurposeSufferingSocialLossWifeGroupsIsolationHousewifeHouseworkSocial GroupsSocial Isolation Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.” MenWorldReasonPurposeHumanityCommunityImaginationLossQualityTroubleGroupsBalanceRoseLegsOperationsStreamsRabbitsCompetenceChatterBeaversSagacity Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.” StillsI CanSongLossPoorGroupsTerribleFellowsVery GoodLovelyWithout YouGood WritersHamBlokes Author:Paul McCartney
“I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.” ThinkingMeanStillsImportantLossPathWonderfulGroupsParticularCoreAdoreFamily And FriendsReally MeanMournNostalgic Author:Katie Aselton