#vices

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #consists #convinced #deeper

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#ambition #broadband #cable #content #critical

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#evil #good #government #itself #make

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#boring #dull #get #i #just

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#allow #any #canada #care #country

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ↗

— Henry Ford

#goods #instead #making #manipulation #money

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments. ↗

— John Thorn

#bags #bid #call #civic #even

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.' ↗

— Scott Walker

#big #big government #choice #core #cut