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.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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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.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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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.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.
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If tomorrow your career ends and you cannot do anything anymore, at least you know you gave everything.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.
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What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
