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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

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