William Stanley Jevons Quotes
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.
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It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
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I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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She was a woman of uncertain age.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
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The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
