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“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?”

People Government Law Courses Wish Justice Results Doubt Industry Balance Campaigns Branches Contribution Governing Lobbying Great Results Campaign Contributions

Author:Thomas Frank

“Industry need not wish.”

Needs Wish Industry

Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.”

Years Kind May Heaven Wish Wealth Industry Reader Thee Bless Health Wealth

Book:Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

Source: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

“I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.”

Mind Art Hands Wish Depends Industry Wish You

Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.”

Ifs Wish Audience Poet Industry Ambition Sake Arguing Lectures Crowded Citations

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,'' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.”

Mean Bigs Wish Industry Majors Increase Profit Newspapers These Days Behalf English Major

Author:Dave Barry

“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.”

Men May Doe Individual Wish Deals Industry Genius Comfort Horse Absolutes Intelligent Patient Convinced Observation Certainty Steady Despise Absolute Certainty

Author:Walter Lippmann

“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.”

Men Should Humans May Doe Whole Might Wish Business Race Products Industry Labor Should Have Human Race Fancy Toil

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom