Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Oscar Levant)
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. (Steven Wright)
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. (H. G. Wells)
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
A healthy mind in a healthy body. (Juvenal)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. (Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Gossip needs no carriage. (Assyrian Proverb)
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. (George Lucas)
Success is a journey, not a destination. (Ben Sweetland)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 35 Bible)
Should one see a wise man who, like a revealer of treasures, points out faults and reproves, let one associate with such a wise person for the benefits he shall receive. (Unknown)
Never read a book that is not a year old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. (Heywood Broun)
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. (Robert J. Sawyer)