"Economy: cutting down other people's wages."

-- J. B. Morton

#Cutting Quotes #People Quotes #Wages Quotes

“I'm not going to get myself hurt." I'm too important to let that happen. ~Jaypaw”
“It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
“Just wear what makes you happy. If you're happy, it's a great outfit.”
“We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ...”
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
“I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.”
“Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”
“I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

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