#mini

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#appears #ascent #been #dominion #extent

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#afford #amazing #bureaucracy #cannot #doctors

The real minimum wage is zero. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#minimum wage #real #wage #zero

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#claim #constant #feminine #ground #implicit

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#administration #before #care #divided #entered

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills. ↗

— Lesley Stahl

#bills #i #machine #office #paying

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#culture #fact #i #i think #in fact