"The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel."

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Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate”, p.58

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.”

Source : "The nature of the firm" by Ronald Coase in Economica, Volume 4, No. 16 (p. 393), onlinelibrary.wiley.com. November 1937.
“We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.”

Source : Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.
“A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.683, Scholastic Inc.
“I think when youâ€™re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.”
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
“I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.”
“True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.”
“Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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