“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.” ShouldLongAmericaPresidentTermSuccessfulPlansHigherTaxesElementsFinancialBudgetsLong TermFundWealthyPresident ObamaRevenueRecessions Author:Steven Rattner
“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.” IfsShouldCertainPlansTelevisionVoteStructureStrikesContractsParticipationRationalityRight To VoteHealth Plan Author:Dick Wolf
“Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.” WayShouldFightingPlansReturnAbuseIraqAlsBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenLieutenants Author:John Yoo
“It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.” WantShouldWellsActionPlansPicksCrossesEmbraceRidiculousPunishmentRedemptionMake SenseReasoningArrogantSubmissionClayEraseGod's PlanRidiculous Things Book:Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.” WorldShouldWholeFunPlansSavingDominationFunny InspirationalSave The WorldDump Author:Katie MacAlister
“The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.” WantGivingShouldRealChoicesCompanyPlansBalanceBenefitsWorkersTraditionalDefinedEmployeeCashIrsReal Questions Author:Bernie Sanders
“The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldHoursPlansDependsWelfareMinimumConvenienceFacilityComplete Freedom Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.” ShouldStillsBigsTodayTurnsHouseEnergyPlansWillingRegretCleanCongressOilSchemesSenatorsArrivalsCleanlinessArcticClean EnergyBiddingDrillingBig Oil Author:Carl Pope
“Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.” WorldShouldImportantCitiesMistakeStepsPlansNew YorkSummerInternationalCommittedCustomersNew York CityEfficientOfferingExpansionEnjoyableFacilityGatewaysDeltaTravel Experience Author:Jim Whitehurst
“The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.” WorldShouldHumansLooksHelpingHomeSpiritHuman BeingsPlansDivineHigherPureAngelSalvationGuardianGuardian AngelDivine NatureDivine Wisdom Book:Theological texts Source: Theological texts
“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.” MenShouldMayEyeFormScienceMoralSunPlansYouthTaughtBrotherHeroMassRoseTemplesAtomsOrgansTendernessSageWormsRestlessEnlighteningMorrowPoisonousScientific Truth Author:Erasmus Darwin
“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.” ShouldFirstsBelieveSchoolNextPlansBalanceSolutionsGenderDecadesEngineering Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.