Yalaniv70 Quotes & Sayings

We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

At the end of World War II, we had wage and price controls. Under wartime inflationary conditions, many employers found it difficult to recruit employees. To get around the limitations of wage control, many began to offer health care as a fringe benefit to attract workers. As a new benefit, it took some years for the Internal Revenue Service to get around to requiring the cost of the medical care to be included in the reported taxable income of the employees. By the time it did, workers had come to regard nontaxable medical care provided by the employer as a right - or should I say entitlement? They raised such a big political fuss that Congress legislated nontaxable status for employer-provided medical care. — Milton Friedman

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren — Kathryn Lasky

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey? — Nenia Campbell

I like it here. I like the girls, and I like the DJ's, and the cocktail waitresses, and the loud rock'n'roll (though I would happily beat everyone in Poison to death with the severed limbs of the members of Warrant). — Craig Machen

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. — Michael Pollan

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul ... The losses piled up. — Karen Kingsbury

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. — Ruth Rendell

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order. — Joseph Fort Newton

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. — Susan Wiggs

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again. — Carl Paladino