“Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.”
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“People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.”
“I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.”
“I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.”
“I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.”
“Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.”
“Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.”
“I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.”
“Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.”
“I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.”
“I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.”
“I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.”
“It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.”
“I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.”
“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.”
“This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.”
“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”
“Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.”
“Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.”
“The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.”