The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.


Julian Simon

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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI
I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN
I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES
The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES
You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES
The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES
Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES
I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND
I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
JULIAN OVENDEN
It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS
'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.
JULIAN OVENDEN
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
I would have nailed Bond.
JULIAN MCMAHON
Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the mor...
JULIAN MCMAHON
You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene,
JULIAN MCMAHON
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
JULIAN MCMAHON
By the time Van died everyone involved in the case knew the prison workers had only been kindly to h...
JULIAN MCMAHON
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in qu...
JULIAN BAGGINI
When we started, we didn't even have a script. We felt we could create the story together with the c...
JULIAN CROUCH