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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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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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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I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
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The open-necked shirt is really rather ugly. I have seen people with beautifully-tailored jackets on with an open shirt with an awful Adam’s apple there.
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
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Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
