Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
I love, love, love John Mayer. He's incredible. I love all of his records and even his John Mayer Trio stuff.
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
