Farney Elementary Quotes & Sayings

A direct tax upon the wages of labour, therefore, though the labourer might perhaps pay it out of his hand, could not properly be said to be even advanced by him, at least if the demand for labour and the average price of provisions remained the same after the tax as before it. In all such cases, not only the tax but something more than the tax would in reality be advanced by the person who immediately employed him. — Adam Smith

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti

This earth in which we are living is not our everlasting home — Sunday Adelaja

The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed. — Camilla Collett

Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss! — Nikos Kazantzakis

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them. — Ming-Na Wen

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs. — Mireille Guiliano

Szilard encouraged me to apply for a postdoc position at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, though he knew I might work on nuclear weapons eventually. My job interview with Teller was both stimulating and unnerving; at the end of it, I suspected Teller understood my thesis better than I did. It was also terrifying; I had no warning who would interview me. — Gregory Benford

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work. — Joshua Oppenheimer