William Stanley Jevons Quotes
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.William Stanley Jevons
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive Schreiner -
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama -
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Barry Ritholtz -
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage -
You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
Venus Williams
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Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.
Mara Wilson -
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry Commoner -
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
Victor Grignard -
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
Yoko Ono -
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
Zach LaVine -
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie -
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
Carlton Fisk -
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Ian Somerhalder
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I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?
Caster Semenya -
There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
Harvey Fierstein -
I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
Mac DeMarco -
A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.
Catharine Sedgwick -
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
William Stanley Jevons