Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
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N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.
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Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.
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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
