"One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23.1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide."

-- Edward Glaeser

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“I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.”
“Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”
“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
“Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.”
“For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.”
“I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.”

Source : "The Outsiders: John C. Reilly on Terri". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2011.
“The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10Â½ hours to fly back.”
“A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.”

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