The person who swears in public has a loss of impulse control.
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JOAN BERISH As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT