#ties

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#been #difficulties #had #i #invent

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#coast #commission #companies #consulting #even

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#eminently #fraud #generally #insider #particular

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bring #free #into #joyous #nature

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

#business #certainties #judgements #probabilities #proceeds

A mask of gold hides all deformities. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#gold #hides #mask

I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#foolish #i #opportunities #some #take

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#black #country #great #hispanic #just