What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.
Integrative power [is] the ultimate power
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields. . . leading towards a "system of systems. ". . . I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse. . . . (vi). . . the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness.
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.