William Stanley Jevons Quotes
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.
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When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
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I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.
