The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

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Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

James Hansen

Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

Calvin Calverley

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Benjamin Franklin

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Proverb

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Jackie Chan

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Denis Waitley

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

Patti Smith

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Emeli Sande

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Bradley Whitford