“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?” KnowsWayHumansMeanDifferentDoneSongFeltCuttingLimitsCreatingInfiniteDifferent WaysPhrases Author:Nina Simone
“The First Amendment to the Constitution says government can't establish a religion, but neither can it limit the exercise of religion. And that's the issue here. What does it mean to be free to exercise your religion? It's not about what you can believe. It's whether you can act on those beliefs.” FirstsBelieveMeanDoeGovernmentBeliefIssuesExerciseLimitsConstitutionAmendmentsFirst Amendment Author:Tom Gjelten
“My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.” MeanWould BeIndividualImpossibleLimitsMethodLaysUselessContention Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” WorldMeanWisdomLanguageLearningCommunicationLimitsPhilosophicalLanguage WordsLanguage And CommunicationLanguages CommunicationPower Of LanguageLanguage And PowerInternational Language Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.” IfsThinkingMeanLittlesEndsWould BeBitsLinesLimitsLittle BitNothingnessLowestCharlotte's Web Author:E. B. White
“Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.” GivingMindMeanUseDesireGrowsLinesSpaceInformationPossibilityBearsLimitsScientistInterpretationDiverseDotsKernelGood MindDiverse Society Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“It’s broke again, akri. The man downstairs done said that the Simi can’t charge nothing else until I’m not over my limit no more. I don’t know what that means, but I don’t like it. Fix it, akri, or else I might eat him. The Simi gots needs and I needs my plastic to work. (Simi)” KnowsMenNeedsMeanSaidDoneMightLimitsBrokePlastic Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?” KnowsWorldHumansMeanI CanTwoLyingTermPrinciplesConditionsThis WorldLimitsAbsolutesUnityRationalCertaintyReasonableAppetiteImpossibilityReducingReconcileSisyphusMyth Of Sisyphus Author:Albert Camus
“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.” GivingWritingFirstsMeanSpeakLinesSeaPossibilityThousandLimitsGiving Up Author:Stanislaw Lem
“Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.” MeanSpiritualJusticeLossLimitsGainsFalsehood Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
“No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.” LooksMeanWonderLimitsShotsResponseSecondsCollectingTime Limit Book:The Truth About Forever Source: The Truth About Forever
“Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.” GivingMeanSelfLimitsCommitmentOneselfBehalf Book:Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body Source: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body
“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.” ThinkingHumansMeanRealityGirlNamesHuman BeingsLimitsFemaleEmpowermentOppositesMereMalesSomedayComplement Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.” MayMeanAbleAcceptingPathRight NowLimits Author:Nick Vujicic