If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will ...
The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth po...
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-c...
But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives, from the comfort of our couch in our safe and sanitary home. Aren't we, those who live in the rich world, the constant...
In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class h...
[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for...
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of con...
Economics Teacher: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Simone: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess...
Sheldon Flender: You, you, you're all missing the point, the point is I can give pleasure many times a day! Rita: Oh, now, really Flender, what does quantity got to do with it? Sheldon Flender: Quantity, quantity affects quality! David Shayne: Says w...
Economic gross is making us fat.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.
You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
Economics is not brain surgery.
There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
