#earning

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#earnings #economics #income #socialism #wealth

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #knack #learning #miss

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#clinic #harvard #learning #like #literature

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#baseball #curve #hit #how #learning

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ↗

— Aeschylus

#afraid #i #learning #sail #ship

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. ↗

— Aeschylus

#justice #learning #scale #some #suffering

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. ↗

— William Allingham

#each #learning #more #nothing #say

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

I love learning new techniques. ↗

— David Bailey

#i love #learning #love #new #techniques