William Stanley Jevons Quotes

In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

William Stanley Jevons

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

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• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

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• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

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• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

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• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

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• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

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• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

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• The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

  

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• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  

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• I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

  

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• I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

  

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• Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.

  

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• We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

  

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• Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

  

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• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

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• If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

  

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• Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.

  

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• Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.

  

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• If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

  

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• I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

  

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Long
  • Running
  • Philosophy