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I would not bet against US innovation, entrepreneurship and business culture - The trinity that drives economic growth and recovery. Yes, we do face a major crisis, but we also do have a proven track record of recovery. – Med Jones
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. – Douglas Adams
Although the protesters in Egypt and neighboring countries are calling for democratic reforms, in reality they are calling for better economic life. Democracy is only a means to an end. I believe the driving forces behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are economical. A chronic high unemployment combined with an inflation in food prices is a volatile mix that can lead to major civic outbursts. – Med Jones
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. – Noam Chomsky
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. – Mignon McLaughlin
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. – Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles. – Marquis de Sade
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. – Cathy Guisewite
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. – George Orwell
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content. – Marquis de Sade
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America – Dwight D Eisenhower
I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. – James Taylor
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead. – Frank Gelett Burgess
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. – Russell Wayne Baker
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate. – George McGovern
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. – Douglas Adams
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur. – George Whitehead
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. – Delmore Schwartz
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. – Cathy Guisewite
One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people. – Douglas Adams
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. – Marilyn Ferguson

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