Flexibilities Quotes & Sayings

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media
none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. — Howard Zinn

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that. — Robert Winston

Hoping for the best is hoping nothing happens — Taking Back Sunday

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors. — Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman

He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place. — Walter Terry

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt. — Rene Descartes

There have been only five burglars in the history of robbery who have specialized in rope. All five of these burglars were caught and sent to prison, which is why scarcely any people lock up their rope for safekeeping. — Lemony Snicket

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes. — Jerzy Kosinski

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish. — Marjorie Bowen

We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

The irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it. — Hermann Broch