Otherwise, our society is like a goose, and without business ethics, we are killing the goose that lays the eggs.
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In Singapore, the virus is transmitted to humans mainly by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, an urban-dwelling pest that lays its eggs in stagnant water.
"When you have a goose that lays golden eggs, you clip its wings and don't let it leave the farm, " he wrote in one filing.
"When the queen bee lays her eggs, worker bees can determine whether the resulting larvae are to become an adult worker bee or an adult queen bee, " Dr Hurd said.
According to Pierre Jaisson at the University of Paris-Nord the man who is leading the investigation of these strange critters the reason a mother lays two eggs, only for one of them to get eaten, is probably a kind of insurance policy.
Even if she does not go to the hideous expense of nurturing a single offspring in her womb for nine months but, like a stickleback, simply lays her eggs in a nest prepared by a male, she still has to produce those eggs.
The lesson to be learned is not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
So why are the local politicians considering a plan to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?
They might kill the goose that lays the golden eggs because they can't figure out how to keep both it and themselves alive.
It's a win-win situation, except that Chicago Tribune ace reporter Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger) has been assigned to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Voters around the world are increasingly worried that governments are not only taxing the goose that lays the golden eggs but risking the very life of the goose.
The goose that lays the golden eggs, i.e.
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The prevailing narrative on the right is that we are locked in a two-sided conflict pitting American business against ham-handed legislators and clueless regulators whose well-intentioned but misguided laws, regulations, taxes, and mandates threaten to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Looking at the West's current economic woes, it is easy to share Ms. McCloskey's concern that unless we revive a sense of dignity and approbation for entrepreneurship and innovation, we might easily kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of our prosperity.
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Why, you might ask, would the UK want to walk away from all that wealth - give up the goose that lays so many golden eggs?
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