Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Life is a four-letter word

Lenny Bruce

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

John Tyndall

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Charles Stross

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Benjamin Disraeli

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Jane Austen

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Ellis, was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions.

George Orwell

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Thomas Sowell

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

Salman Rushdie

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

Milton Friedman