#aim

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth. ↗

— David Korten

#money #wealth

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. ↗

— Karl Rove

#culture #decent #hopeful #ideal #important

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." ↗

— Helen Rowland

#claim #divorces #france #happiest #made

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#area #captured #claiming #football #fun

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#attainment #consciously #himself #historic #humanity

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#as far as #because #claim #concerned #does

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#closely #examine #honesty #inescapable #only

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc