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philosophy progressive-taxation class
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested. Ludwig von Mises
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Charles Peguy
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. Charles Peguy
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. Denis Diderot
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. Denis Diderot
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. Denis Diderot
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. Denis Diderot
philosophy teaching class
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham
order entrepreneur benefits
The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers. Ludwig von Mises
order percent squeeze therefore
We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities. J. M. Roberts
order europe california
The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke. Dennis Prager
order becoming-better people
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things. Dennis Prager
order each-day may
Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent. Deniece Schofield
order survival monsters
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. Denis Diderot
order perfection fleeting
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days. Denis Diderot
order literature sometimes
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot
order two heaven
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless. Denis Diderot
people
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. Isabella Rossellini
people
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed. Isabella Rossellini
people
Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' Rick Perlstein
people
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. Robert Mankoff
people
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do. Robert Mankoff
people
There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. Robert Teeter
people
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose
people
My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. Kristy Swanson
people
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour. Malorie Blackman