#cap

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#best #capital #commence #hands #head

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. ↗

— Voltaire

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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anywhere #appear #believe #capacity #i

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#escape #i #i think #important #important thing

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#because #dragged #escape #guards #i

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#agreement #am #board #broad #capitals

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. ↗

— Warren R. Austin

#capitol #craftsmanship #peace #shall #statesmanship