Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce—oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
Like priests in the medieval church, ratings agency representatives spoke the equivalent of financial Latin, which few in their investor congregation actually understood. Nevertheless, the congregation was comforted by the fact that the priests appeared able to confer guidance and blessings.
It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth. Don't you think?
And what in fluctuating appearance hovers,Ye shall fix by lasting thoughts.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Manage things. Lead people.
It never gets easier, you just get faster.
Teaching to solve problems is education of the will.
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas;but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
If I had asked my customer's what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.
It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
-What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life
Evolution is a theory. Creationism is a conspiracy theory.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - Wow! What a ride!
When Lear cries—Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?—we could reply, on one level, yes—a defect in the right prefrontal cortex. But that just illuminates the fact that cruelty does not exist in nature : only humans with their left prefrontal cortex have the capacity for deliberate malice. But then only humans, with their right prefrontal cortex, are capable of compassion.
The Master and His Emissary
And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, 'This is important! And this is important! And this is important! you need to worry about this! And this! And this!"
And each day, it's up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, "No. This is what's important."
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
-A Cult of Ignorance
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10874230/Jean-Claude-Juncker-profile-When-it-becomes-serious-you-have-to-lie.html
Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.
