Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
BILL VAUGHANThe perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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