William Stanley Jevons Quotes
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Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
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There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
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Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
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I couldn't stop throwing theories at Jimmi Simpson, and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show Westworlds. I promise."
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
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So this is how it is to be done. It is clear that in the Ostmark, the eastern region of the Reich, objects are now to be handled with care. Every silver candlestick is to be weighed. Every fork and spoon is to be counted. Every vitrine is to be opened. The marks on the base of every porcelain figure will be noted. A scholarly question mark is be appended to a description of an Old Master drawing; the dimensions of a picture will be measured correctly. And while this is going on, their erstwhile owners are having their ribs broken and teeth knocked out.
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We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.
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Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
