"The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour."

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Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.32

William Stanley Jevons

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“When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.”
“I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.”
“I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.”

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“I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.”
“Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right”
“I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.”

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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.”

Source : David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, Joyce Osland (1991). “Organizational behavior: an experiential approach”

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