#perv

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#dangerous #effects #hold #individual #market

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#added #any #care #cooking #did

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#carefully #diets #doctors #i #lost

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #evil #good #governing #most

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. ↗

— Carson Daly

#developing #film #how #i #learning

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#another #childhood #comes #drawing #everything

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#down #go #i #like #me

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion