#tho

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bail #christmas #colleague #does #else

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#apples #base #bumper #cannot #colonial

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#compassion #humanity #love #luxuries #necessities

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#agents #believe #better #better world #care

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#cannot #human #live #meditation #religion

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#good #particular #religion #survive #without

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#analysis #authority #critical #individual #must

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#desire #nothing #responsibility #shirk #wish

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #future #last #mischievous #people