"we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment."

-- William Stanley Jevons

#Numbers Quotes #Want Quotes #Employment Quotes

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press
“I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 21, 2015
“What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.”
“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?”
“Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.”
“You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.”
“No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.”
“Don't worry about me," I finally said. "Really. I'm more worried about you." And even more worried about where Graves is. "Are you?" A fey smile lit his face, and I caught my breath. It was a shock to see him look so happy. "Well, then.”

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