James Surowiecki Quotes

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

James Surowiecki

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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Daniel De Leon
- Money
- Poverty
- Breeds
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

Aaron Neville
- Up
- Remember
- Years
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

Ferran Adria
- Job
- Vacation
- Restaurant
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

Vincent Cassel
- People
- World
- Dream
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Karl Jaspers
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

E. W. Howe
- May
- Cold
- Friendship