"The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives."

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Source : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

Arthur C. Brooks

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Incentives Quotes

“In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.”
“When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.”
“I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.”
“Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The ability to know oneâ€™s limitations, to recognize the bounds of oneâ€™s own comprehensionâ€”this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.”
“I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?”

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