"Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example."

-- Jon Meacham

#Helping Others Quotes #Favors Quotes #Regulation Quotes

“Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.”
“I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, whats the point?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do not let the hero in your soul perish...”
“I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.”
“The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.”

Source : Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.
“We don't really watch basketball in Australia.”
“If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?”
“Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.”

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