#vices

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#critical #cutting #domestic #education #environmental

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#fail #invent #reformer #something #substitutes

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conclude #further #i #need #operas

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#neither #nor #our #remedies #them

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? ↗

— Laura Miller

#city #city hall #cuts #forces #hall

My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges. ↗

— Merton Miller

#especially #exchanges #financial #financial services #industry

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. ↗

— Merton Miller

#because #course #devices #favor #i