Larry Elder quote: "Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights."

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the s...
LARRY ELDER

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
LARRY ELDER

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private cha...
LARRY ELDER

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one yea...
LARRY ELDER

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual ret...
LARRY ELDER

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equiva...
LARRY ELDER

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from in...
LARRY ELDER

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drownin...
LARRY ELDER

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
LARRY ELDER

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
LARRY ELDER

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be ...
LARRY ELDER

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to som...
LARRY ELDER

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also know...
LARRY ELDER

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child...
LARRY ELDER

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better econo...
LARRY ELDER

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
LARRY ELDER

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will ...
LARRY ELDER

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was o...
LARRY ELDER

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuske...
LARRY ELDER

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
LARRY ELDER

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and r...
LARRY ELDER

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too r...
LARRY ELDER

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers ...
LARRY ELDER

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
LARRY ELDER

I don't believe this is going to cause any more violence in the inner city,
LARRY ELDER

Spain, a country of 41 million people, boasts a greater Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than the GDP of...
LARRY ELDER

According to Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority...
LARRY ELDER

Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America's No. 1 issue. A Time/CNN poll found 89 p...
LARRY ELDER

I do consider them to be message films, and the messages are, by and large, liberal messages. But th...
LARRY ELDER

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scre...
LARRY ELDER

Thirty-five percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey, call themselves conservat...
LARRY ELDER

The Social Security "trust fund" doesn't consist of any real assets. The government "borrows" fund m...
LARRY ELDER

Mired in a batting slump, Bonds sat in the locker room and complained about his uncharacteristic str...
LARRY ELDER

You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable ...
LARRY ELDER

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? u...
LARRY ELDER

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. A...
LARRY ELDER

Increasing minimum wages, as Kerry wants to do, makes it more difficult for an unskilled, uneducated...
LARRY ELDER

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, ...
LARRY ELDER

Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
LARRY ELDER

Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more...
LARRY ELDER

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made the...
LARRY ELDER

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
ELDER CLOWARD

This town means a lot to me. It's been good to my family and it's been good to me. We worked hard la...
BRUCE ELDER

I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
BRUCE ELDER

It was a tremendous way of communicating with the greatest number of people. It was the very first t...
BRUCE ELDER

If we can get more of this town pedestrian-friendly, we are going to cut down on some of this traffi...
BRUCE ELDER

We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to ...
BRUCE ELDER

The most important thing that the city can do is encourage growth that provides good wages for folks...
BRUCE ELDER

It is a great way of communicating at low cost. Web sites level the playing field for a challenger l...
BRUCE ELDER

I'm not going to run any TV ads. I hadn't even considered it - because of the cost.
BRUCE ELDER

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO ELDER

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO ELDER

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO ELDER

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO ELDER

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO ELDER

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO ELDER

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO ELDER

It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO ELDER

“My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER

We all have some loose screws - Some more than others, Compatibility is knowing which screws to turn...
ROSS ELDER

I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy, the key is to be busy making money.
ROSS ELDER

I’m going to look like an idiot to everyone I ever knew - or everyone I ever knew is going to real...
ROSS ELDER

...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien...
ELDER PORPHYRIOS

It'll be a diversification for us. Tourism has been good for us, but we need something to offset the...
BOB ELDER

“Do as I say, not as I do! You are my parent, guardian, and mentor too, I love you, need you and w...
ROSS ELDER

The recommended involvement of youths comes down to the willingness of communities and guardians to ...
JAMES ELDER

Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because ...
JERRY ELDER

It's actually slower, but it's getting faster. I can't imagine a better field to play on.
CHRIS ELDER

The old mine is not up-to-date with their equipment. So all that's going to change.
BOB ELDER

In the way of virus protection and security, I keep my laptop updated. I download Windows updates an...
CHRIS ELDER

That's probably a problem for the next six months to a year.
CATHERINE ELDER

Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER

Our assessment found no changes warranted to our major modeling assumptions.
CATHERINE ELDER

The penalty still would have been up to 10 years for each charge, but it would have been classified ...
DONNA ELDER

The issue of concurrent time would be irrelevant then. It's not to his advantage to wait.
DONNA ELDER

We have tentatively marked that as the trial date. That's subject to change. His defense attorney co...
DONNA ELDER

To think that President Hinckley has that stamina, that strength, that power to keep moving forward ...
ELDER PERRY

Let's pray that he has the strength to get through the next few weeks. I'm sure the Lord will contin...
ELDER PERRY

It was the first time (President Hinckley) had ever been in a hospital to stay overnight.
ELDER PERRY

Not any soul on this earth can withstand the assault of the spirit. They may not accept it, they may...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE

Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worl...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE

It was the torch that people followed, whoever the barer may be.
ELDER FEATHERSTONE

Zimbabwean children are faced with some of the worst hardships confronting children anywhere in the ...
JAMES ELDER

With so many economic challenges, coupled with a very high number of orphaned children ... there is ...
JAMES ELDER

For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati...
JACKI ELDER

The more the American troops die, the more troops they send to die.
JOE ELDER

It is part of the democratic process. We say what we believe and learn what we can and then we make ...
JOE ELDER

In fact, ever since the war began in Iraq the parallels are quite striking, although, and also very ...
JOE ELDER

The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
PLINY THE ELDER

They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by ...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv...
PLINY THE ELDER

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest...
PLINY THE ELDER

We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe...
PLINY THE ELDER

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them...
PLINY THE ELDER

To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly...
PLINY THE ELDER

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, b...
PLINY THE ELDER

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDER

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER

What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in ...
PLINY THE ELDER

To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flo...
PLINY THE ELDER

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th...
PLINY THE ELDER

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER

Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER

Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first ti...
PLINY THE ELDER

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
PLINY THE ELDER

From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and i...
PLINY THE ELDER

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER

The pain behind these eyes run deep, I shelter it & keep it within; for these are the scars of my li...
ROBERT ANDREW ELDER

Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER

It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess the...
PLINY THE ELDER

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER

No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER

In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER

Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cup...
PLINY THE ELDER

Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as ...
PLINY THE ELDER

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or a leg, or drowned him in t...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my li...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people wi...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibit...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the aver...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I have what you might call “logical empathy” for people I don’t know. That is, I can understan...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

The fact is, from an evolutionary standpoint, people have an inbred tendency to care about and prote...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet to...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

...delineated with signs reading:

TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

My conversational difficulties highlight a problem Aspergians face every day. A person with an obvio...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, a...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Soon I was spending all my time in the basement, and I had moved from taking things apart to putting...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Sociopath” and “psycho” were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put what...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

Asperger’s is not a disease. It’s a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one....
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that thr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

When we pulled in, the customs officer looked in the back. The back of the wagon was filled with cas...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world whe...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I used to fear barking dogs. I would cringe and say to myself, 'Nice doggie please don't bite me I'l...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pa...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs
JOHN ELDER ROBISON

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

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