“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.” WorldMindWellsStatesChristianGivenUnitedUnited StatesDoubtSonProductsRevolutionCivilizationPagesShadowJewCommunismReportsDestroyingSenateTestimonyBankersRabbiRussian Revolution Author:Kenneth Goff
“What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.” IfsShouldYearsStillsReasonMightNextGivenProductsBenefitsOvercomingBiggerIncreaseExcusePreservesReason WhyConsumerismPreparingHarvestNext YearAvariceNo ExcusesOverconsumptionWarehouse Author:Ambrose
“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.” IfsYearsDoeLyingGivenPayLandConditionsFieldsProduceProductsReturnGardenPlantOwnersGardener Author:Hammurabi
“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.” PeopleArtEndsSometimesGivenProductsProgramBudgetsArchitectSchedules Author:Frank Gehry
“One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.” RealGivenFiguresProductsOppositesFunctionMarkProductionsIdeologicalProliferationInvert Author:Michel Foucault
“The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.” WayUsedGivenNaturalProductsHarmonyStructureHearingScalesInventionUsed To BeArtisticBehaviourFormation Author:Hermann von Helmholtz
“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .” YearsRunningMovingNightGivenSportsTelevisionFootballProductsSmartAffairFinancialEntertainmentMagnificentLooking BackMondayRevenueLove AffairReconcileFeesRetainingMonday NightMonday Night Football Author:George Bodenheimer
“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.” KnowsTodayGivenGrowthMoralIssuesRiskGenerationsEconomicProductsAskingGravesGoldenConsumersDamageConsumptionFuture GenerationGolden RuleDo Unto OthersMoral IssuesUnethicalEconomic Issues Author:Ken Caldeira
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.” MenYearsHas BeensGivenGrowsSpecialHe ManProductsSafeIdealsProgramBillsFavorsVarietyEnterpriseExpensesFarmersAgricultureFarmingCornConstructiveCropsRiceTobaccoWheatCottonSwineLivestock Author:Calvin Coolidge
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.” WorldNeedsCountryCharacterGivenFeetProductsIndustryConnectionsProductionsSurfaceSettlingConsumptionExploitationGlobesConsumerismExpandingOverconsumptionReactionariesBourgeoisieChagrin Author:Karl Marx
“Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.” GivenProductsResourcesPerformancesProgrammingYieldSoftwareEngineeringConstraintsRefinementSoftware Engineering Author:Niklaus Wirth
“Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.” WayLittlesFactsUseHappensDesireBeliefGivenToo MuchBloodHealthProductsWeightPressureJointsGiven UpDiabetesBlood PressureArthritisHigh Blood Pressure Book:Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“We don't believe in limiting access to our product. We believe that making our ticket sales available on as many sites as possible is good for the studios and good for us. We have on any given day 25,000 show starts - five show times at 5,000 screens. We have 1M seats more or less in our circuit. So I have 25M sales opportunities every single day. Why would I want to limit access?” WantBelieveShowsOpportunityGivenFiveProductsLimitsDon't BelieveStudiosAvailableScreensAccessSeatsTicketsSiteCircuits Author:Gerry Lopez
“H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.” FirstsBelieveSaidFeelingsGivenPayClassProductsTasteBenefitsProjectsUglyBrokeTicketsUnderestimateGood TasteFirst ClassLayout Book:Confessions of an advertising man Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.” HumansGivenWealthCreativityEnvironmentProductsKeysRainTradeProsperityAccidentsContractsAssociates Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.” PeopleGivingKindLittlesUseRememberGivenBitsVoiceOpinionFieldsSeriousProductsFameLittle BitExcitingWho I AmSubstanceConsiderationFrightening Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.” MightStrongGivenProductsPromiseIntuitionDevelopingExecutivesVery StrongConsideringProbabilityRivals Author:Daniel Kahneman
“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.” BookGivenSimpleConditionsMediaProductsDrawsStructureSettingConclusionSettingsDescriptionConsentControversialManufacturing Author:Noam Chomsky