#vices

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#make #our #ourselves #out #themselves

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#day #every #every day #gold #gold standard

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#easily #governed #more #than #their

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#america #believe #care #circumstances #existing

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#devices #going #how #inevitably #ipod

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#against #because #bias #catholic #catholic church

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#benefit #care #disaster #elderly #funding

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #beginning #faith-based #funding #government

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #catch #company #contagious #disease

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#constituents #continue #end #enjoy #ensure