"When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#War Quotes #Division Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.”
“Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.”
“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”

Source : Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art
“A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!”
“Whoever invented men had definitely not ironed out all the kinks.”

Source : Judith Kelman (1992). “The House on the Hill”, Crimeline
“I know that money speaks more loudly than need.”
“The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories.”
“You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.”

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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