William Petty Quotes
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me.
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We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.
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The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
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This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.
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The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
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Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
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He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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Attention is a precious commodity.
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It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.
