#wards

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#education #effectively #high #high schools #impedes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ↗

— Confucius

#action #acts #afterwards #before #his

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#afterwards #attack #exactly #glasgow #great

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#could #don king #end #fighting #fights

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#categorized #chemicals #earthly #good #illegal

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. ↗

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#gave #give #how #measure #money