"Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true."

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Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

Vilfredo Pareto

#Law Quotes #Limits Quotes #Being True Quotes

“I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song”
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”

Source : "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, transl. by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, P. 175, 2004.
“I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful”

Source : Lily Collins (2017). “Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me”, p.15, Random House
“A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.”
“I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?" I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed;”
“I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.”
“The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.”
“When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.”

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