"The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Yield Quotes #Giving Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.”
“The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.”
“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.”
“I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.”
“You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.”

Source : "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

Source : A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) See Anacharsis 1
“Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.”

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