#ono

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#his #honor #insupportable #liberty #life

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#believe #build #down #economy #got

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#european #foundation #i #i think #patriotism

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another. ↗

— Fred Upton

#better #country #economy #fact #far

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. ↗

— Iris Chang

#class #class distinctions #country #course #distinctions

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last. ↗

— James Chanos

#cent #economy #eye #growing #healthcare

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good. ↗

— Julie Chen

#emmys #feel #feel good #gets #going

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic