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Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
Delay | Global | Growth | Inevitable | Little | Question | Reconciliation | Wise | Loss | Crisis |
Jean Giraudoux, fully Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Charles Sismondi, fully Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour--never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.
Absolute | Business | Consciousness | Diversion | Health | Industry | Yielding | Business |
John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
L. P. Jacks, fully Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Speech is insufficient to utter the last things; and this troubles it not, because the last things may be heard speaking for themselves. At last, after long delay the wondering soul gives form to that which is stirring within it and produces its works art and song and mighty deeds.
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Nāgārjuna, fully Acharya Nāgārjuna NULL
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Conduct | Delay | Life | Life | Mankind | Men | Youth | Youth |
Pitirim A. Sorokin, fully Pitirim Alexandrovich (Alexander) Sorokin
As we move nearer and nearer to contemporary art, we are well-nigh shocked by the contrast we encounter. Art becomes increasingly a commodity manufactured primarily for the market ...aimed almost exclusively at utility, relaxation, diversion and amusement, the stimulation of jaded nerves, or sexual excitation. ...It has to disregard virtually all religious and moral values, because these are rarely `amusing' and `entertaining' in the same sense as wine and women. Hence it comes to be more and more divorced from truly cultural values and turns into an empty art... at once amoral, nonreligious, and nonsocial, and often antimoral, antireligious and antisocial - a mere gilded shell to toy with in moments of relaxation.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.
Ennius, fully Quintus Ennius NULL
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel
The Earth's biophysical systems are large, complex, self-organizing entities. This means there is typically a long lag time between economic cause and ecological effect. (For example, whatever global warming we may already have experienced is not the result of today's levels of greenhouse gases but rather the levels reached perhaps 40 years ago; even though CFC production may be winding down, ozone depletion may worsen for a decade and it may be a half century or more before stratospheric ozone returns to normal.) Thus, the temptation to wait until we are certain that a particular trend is fatal, dangerous or simply uneconomic before deciding on corrective action leads us into an ecological trap. At best, the delay simply further entrenches our unsustainable lifestyles, making change the more difficult; at worst, it will be too late to do anything to reverse the trend.
Action | Cause | Change | Delay | Global | Means | Temptation | Time | Will | Temptation |
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
When you see a tiger, you had better not delay your prediction of its probable behavior.
Better | Delay | Prediction |
R. D. Blackmore, fully Richard Doddridge Blackmore
For, according to our old saying, the three learned professions live by roguery on the three parts of a man. The doctor mauls our bodies the parson starves our souls, but the lawyer must be the adroitest knave, for he has to ensnare our minds.
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Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Robert Byrd, fully Robert Carlyle Byrd
I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job.
Danger | Delay | Government | Government | Danger |