"You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied."

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Source : William Stanley Jevons, Harriet A. Jevons (1886). “Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed”

William Stanley Jevons

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“I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.”
“I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.”
“I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.”
“I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.”
“The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.”
“To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.”
“Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.”

Source : "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.
“Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.”

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