#ties

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#activities #believing #better #centered #fairness

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anywhere #being #blossom #capacities #given

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#catholic #charity #children #chosen #compassion

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#back-up #break #clog #connection #direct

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#competition #done #forces #globalization #industry

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had. ↗

— Al Lewis

#america #amount #any #brutal #capita

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going