“Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.” IssuesProductsIndustryOffersImportanceResponsibleProgrammingAddressesLegislationCablesSatellites Author:Charles W. Pickering
“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.” KnowsWantBookHardGivenReaderOffersImportanceDollarsAverageCreatorTinyDespiteComicCorporateShopsAbandonedComic BookSelectionScopeFractionsBook Readers Author:Scott McCloud
“I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.” MenGivingLittlesLiteratureEffectsHe ManOffersImportanceRelationPaidCorruptionAcceptedInferiorsBribe Book:The Comedians Source: The Comedians
“Another point is that ultimately, as far as the budget is concerned, of major importance is who offers more money during the bidding that must be organized as a part of the privatization process. In this sense, we cannot discriminate against any market participants, not one of them, but this is not relevant at the moment, as the Government has decided to postpone the privatization of Bashneft.” MomentsGovernmentProcessOffersMajorsConcernedDecidedImportanceBudgetsOrganizedRelevantMore MoneyParticipantsBiddingPrivatization Author:Vladimir Putin
“Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths in contains; and the complete absence of any material advantage to be gained by means of it, adds perhaps another charm to its study.” MeanStudyMaterialsOffersPureAdvantageImportanceMathematicsAddAbsenceCharmFollowersMercenary Author:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
“If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.” IfsKnowsAcceptingPositionOffersImportanceRefuseGreat PowerRebuke Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.” IfsGivingMindMayMeanDoeEyeRealizingWalksPathOffersEarsImportanceDelightEducatedConvinceAssuranceMake You HappyLurkingConvince UsEducated Mind Author:Iris Murdoch