In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.
We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.
The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
