Small Business and Society: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ... December 2, 3, and 4, 1975

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 477 páginas
 

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Página 179 - IT° was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
Página 47 - No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
Página 157 - Many people believe that possession of unchallenged economic power deadens initiative, discourages thrift and depresses energy; that immunity from competition is a narcotic, and rivalry is a stimulant, to industrial progress; that the spur of constant stress is necessary to counteract an inevitable disposition to let well enough alone.
Página 179 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Página 102 - Association to the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Senate Judiciary Committee, concerning S.
Página 49 - ... know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues it, not as a means of procuring for himself and his family the necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity...
Página 151 - The second step is to disregard that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't very important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
Página 48 - There is, probably, no people on earth with whom business constitutes pleasure, and industry amusement, in an equal degree with the inhabitants of the United States of America. Active occupation is not only the principal source of their happiness, and the foundation of their national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the "dolcefarniente," know but the horrors of idleness.
Página 359 - ... men where we can save doing that. In other words, where it would be customary for travel expenses to remain, as they did last year, at $10,000, by the method I have described, of trying to save on travel, we hope to turn something back at the end of the year out of that, and I feel sure we will. But we do not want to be in a position of having to come back to you for a deficiency appropriation if we can help it; because I am certain you realize, to cover the whole country, Hawaii and Puerto Rico,...
Página 106 - ... space. The irreducible value, though not the exclusive one, is the idea of law. Law is more than just another opinion; not because it embodies all right values, or because the values it does embody tend from time to time to reflect those of a majority or plurality, but because it is the value of values. Law is the principal institution through which a society can assert its values.

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