The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.
How he lies in his rights of a man!Surprise of the change.
Great companies are built on great products.
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.
One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.
Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence.
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
If a Cynic is an object of pity, he seems a mere beggar; all turn away, all are offended at him. Nor should be be slovenly of look, so as not to scare men from him in this way either; on the contrary, his very roughness should be clean and attractive. (118).
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.