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"Be neither too remote nor too familiar." »Prince Charles
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"Quality has to be caused, not controlled." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them." »Chinese Proverb
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"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." »Fred Hoyle
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"Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled." »Noam Chomsky
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." »Norman Douglas
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"Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!" »m
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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door." »Tyron Edwards
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"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." »Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand." »Confucius
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"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." »1 Peter 47-8 Bible
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"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered." »Benjamin Cohen
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"Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil." »Woody Haldrugold
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"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World" »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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"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
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