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“Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way.”
“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”
“A womanâ€™s body doesnâ€™t quit just because her heart breaks.”
“Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.”
“Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.”
“At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took....”
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.”
“If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.”

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