Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
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More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
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Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
