Edmund Ruffin Quotes
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.Edmund Ruffin
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye -
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
Hari Kunzru -
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
Dan Aykroyd -
I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Langhorne Slim -
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
Nargis Fakhri -
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
Abigail Breslin -
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
Dan Gilbert -
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
Lara Stone -
David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
Bat for Lashes -
In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Funk is the unending cycle of life.
Xenobia Bailey -
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
Louise Erdrich -
Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.
Ben Bernanke
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People are worried where additional supply will come from.
Kate Warne -
An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
Norman Lloyd -
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin