Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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Ayn Rand
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system. . not that the goods pour forth. The justification of capitalism is that it is the only economic system consistent with the requirements of man's rational nature,...
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M. Northrup Buechner
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no...
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Arundhati Roy
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
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Robert W. Cox
More Quotes By Nicholas Carr
[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds...
To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.
Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed...
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic...
