William Stanley Jevons Quotes
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
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'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'
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Beauty is a whore.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
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In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
