Beatrice Webb Quotes
The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice Webb
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty
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Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.
Charles Dickens
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
Edgar Wright
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I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
Anne Hathaway
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice Webb