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...agree in principle that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to our concept of democracy. No high-court decision has yet found grounds to challenge this basic freedom. Yet some who oppose this freedom want to waive the constitutionality of the "gun control" question for the sake of their particular -- and sometimes peculiar -- brand of social reform...
...there is absolutely no doubt that a good many of these conglomerates need to be unbundled, need to be split up. Many managements have been building empires without economic justification, just for the sake, well, partly of having a big company, and partly for the sake of dealmaking. I will tell you a secret: dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work and very little excitement, so dealmaking is kind of romantic, sexy. That's why you have deals that make no sense. There...
...fuel and food nearly gone. Scott's diary entries end this way: "We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more . . . For God's sake look out for our people...
...citizens begin with an equal right to share in the world's material goods, and his principle permits departures from that equality only when the poor themselves are benefitted, or at least not harmed. The interests of society's least fortunate members can never be sacrificed for the sake of those already better off, since this would violate the democratic principle of treating all citizens as equals...
...taxi drove past the barracks that he had once inhabited. "For a moment," he writes, "I was tempted to ask the driver to stop and let me out, but children were playing in front of it, and I thought better of disturbing their play and privacy for the sake of what by now was empty curiosity." This is a book that expresses kindness, strength and wisdom...