Daniel Seligman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
-- Daniel Seligman

#Spirit #Martini #Raises
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?
-- Daniel Seligman

#Couple #Years #Agriculture
The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.
-- Daniel Seligman

#Political #Feminism #Weapons
Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.
-- Daniel Seligman

#Educational #Organization #People

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

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