Tom Chatfield Quotes

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Tom Chatfield

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I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

Jim Pattison

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I love when people become obsessed with 'Downton.'

Jessica Brown Findlay

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If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

Jen Sincero

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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

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I predict 2016 will be a year of upheaval and realignment across the world. China's economy will continue to sputter. Commodity exporting countries will suffer. Europe's growth will remain flat-lined. The U.S. will plug along at under 3% growth.

John J. McLaughlin

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As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.

John Podhoretz

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Misery loves company.

John Ray

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I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

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My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.

Roustam Tariko

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I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

Mickey Hart

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Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties.

Michelle Alexander

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