Leland Stanford Quotes
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Leland Stanford
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
Aaron Klug
It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
Venus Williams
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
Ha-Joon Chang
As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.
Arthur Eddington
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
Geoff Dyer
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.
David Crystal
People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
David Harewood
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Leland Stanford
