Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful. . . I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.
I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
I wanted to be part of something bigger