#pert

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#courtesy #demand #demeanor #equal #how

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#believe #clothing #collectively #depends #earth

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#around #down #expert #foreign #foreign policy

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise. ↗

— Jean Charest

#because #canadian #exchange #expertise #first

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#asserts #being #cannot #creator #every

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bradley #engaged #experts #get #i

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#experts #good #happen #i #ideal

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#institution #long-term #private #private property #property