Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.


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I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it r...
SARAH PINBOROUGH
I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with...
SARAH PAULSON
You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them dow...
SARAH SHAHI
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
SARAH BROWN
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
SARAH ZETTEL
My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hun...
SARAH HALL
Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.
SARAH NOFFKE
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
SARAH DESSEN
Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear ac...
SARAH HALL
In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night f...
SARAH ZETTEL
The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfal...
SARAH RAJKOTWALA
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible ...
SARAH PAULSON
Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humani...
SARAH NOFFKE
You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sort...
SARAH DUNN
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING
[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

Reach me down my
SARAH WILLIAMS If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN
Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS
But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assum...
SARAH DESSEN
But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open ...
SARAH OCKLER
The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
SARAH DESSEN
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY
He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that...
SARAH DESSEN
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN
So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...
SARAH VOWELL
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
SARAH BOSELEY
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN
And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN
But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN
Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN