Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!
You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch. ' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.
I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.