Alfred Sheinwold Quotes

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

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• Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Period
  • Price
  • Either

• I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Change
  • Artist
  • Politics

• India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Computer

• You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Age
  • Rib

• I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

  

  William G. Boykin
  • Constitution
  • Sharia

• The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Fire
  • Flame
  • Civilisation

• As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Women
  • Company
  • Used

• If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

  

  Eugenie Bouchard
  • Money
  • Situation
  • Tennis

• In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Absence
  • Ugliness
  • Furnishing

• The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Justice
  • Tragedy
  • Victim

• Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Different
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Man
  • Confusion
  • Seeking

• Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

  

  Alfred Sheinwold
  • Partners
  • Afford
  • Politeness