“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.” IfsWritingFirstsCharacterFeelingsMemoriesLossStruggleMeditationWillingRateCorruptionSettlingAbundanceVagueDissatisfactionProvocativeZimbabweSpecifics Author:Jabari Asim
“The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.” LossKnownAmountGainsRateCommodityCriteriaUtilityEquilibriumSmall Amounts Author:William Stanley Jevons
“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.” HumansLiteratureIndividualLossAreasRateInventionContactFasterElsewhereCompetingHuman Inventions Author:Jared Diamond
“The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.” MeanEyeSpeakLossExistenceActivityInstrumentsRaisedRateProfitProductionsHarmProofConsumersEnterpriseShrinksProfitableAbolishEliminationReinsProfit And Loss Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.” LittlesLeftLossProduceReturnPeriodsRateAverageProfitDecentWorkoutGrossOccasionalParkingMeterAnnualsAllowancePredictabilityTime LeftParking Meters Author:Warren Buffett
“The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.” IfsStatesLossPoorTaxesBenefitsRateVariousIncomeWelfareStampsHousingWelfare StateSubsidiesFood Stamps Author:Thomas Sowell
“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.” PeopleWorldCharacterSeemsInterestLossNovelMissingGeniusSuicideRateWitInventionArtisticToneConventionsVulgarWretchedRespectableAustenKnowledge Of The WorldEnglish Society Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson