"Property is only another name for monopoly."

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Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

William Stanley Jevons

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“It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.”
“I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.”
“I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.”
“Honey, have you seen your sister?â€ Sheâ€™s on Jupiter, Mom.”
“Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.”
“Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.”
“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130
“He who awaits much can expect little.”

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