#rises

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#companies #does #enterprises #europe #hardly

Life is full of challenges and surprises. ↗

— Jil Sander

#full #life #surprises

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#distraction #itself #out

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#answers #any #believe #big #get

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#desk #gently #give #give me #hand

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. ↗

— John Olver

#armor #body #criminal #incompetence #level

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#consumers #continue #even #fall #faster