As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.
It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.
Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.
Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!
Girls are womb of humanity, nucleus of the family and are supposed to become fully participant citizens in our own countries.
I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.
I want to pave my own path artistically.
