Appropriability Regime Quotes & Sayings

The Spirituality and Self-Help industry wants you to be empowered enough to buy their products, but disempowered enough to still think you need them. — Steve Maraboli

Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn't exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad. — Jonathan Safran Foer

You are mine, November. Until the day you leave this earth, you are mine. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort. — Joyce Carol Oates

I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered.
"Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life. — Lisa Kleypas

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. — Salman Rushdie

Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I rather think they belong instead to the defeated."
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"You mean that those who are killed all belong to the defeated, regardless of which side they were on? — Erik Christian Haugaard

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. — Raul Hilberg

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? — Robbie Coltraine

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime. — Phil Plait

When depression takes root, it is not because you prefer to be sad, it just becomes easier to be sad than happy. — Anton Kimfors

If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today. — David Jeremiah

The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown. — Nouriel Roubini

People who aren't capable of harboring our memories with integrity, shouldn't be allowed them in the first place. — Kim Holden