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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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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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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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
