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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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"In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly." »Goethe
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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." »Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
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"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." »Martin Niemller
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"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." »William Adams
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"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"i will never trade gold for silver again." »esther clerici
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin
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"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation." »Bette Davis
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"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed." »Clarence Darrow
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"trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden." »Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003
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"The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power." »Dennis Kucinich
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"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade." »George Eliot
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." »Calvin Trillin
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"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." »Adam Smith
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"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
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"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire." »Ludwig Mises
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do." »Josh Billings
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"As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »Tom Daschle
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"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." »Mark Twain
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
