The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.
Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate.
A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture's different. You're standing upright as opposed to bent over; you're slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy's elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.
My eldest brother is six years older than me.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
