#de

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. ↗

— William Godwin

#enjoyed #far #indeed #life #merit

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none. ↗

— Greg Garrison

#bar #been #dean #ended #ever

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#become #big #deployments #linux #manage

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#baghdad #bomber #day #deploy #exactly

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change #dresden-files #fire #change

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. ↗

— Bruce Froemming

#dieting #eats #i #man #me

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough. ↗

— Al From

#doubt #govern #people #republicans #show

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty