"The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient."

-- Will Durant

#Past Quotes #Police Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they here.”
“I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.”
“I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel”

Source : Edward Heath's speech at the Hotel Exhibition in Olympia, 1969.
“...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.”
“Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!”
“I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.”
“Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.”

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