#al

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#absolutely #activities #alternative #candle #clear

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#devoted #effects #energy #government #mismanagement

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#capitalism #greed #harm #how #kind

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#attention #bank #crisis #economic #economic crisis

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#designer #douglas #flourish #mcdonald #without

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#dishonest #disorderly #euphemism #journalism #lie

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#better #high #i #i believe #i can

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? ↗

— Frederick Carl Frieseke

#effort #games #going #look #natural

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#argue #continue #debate #language #linguistic