"Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability."

-- David Ricardo

#Real Quotes #Fall Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.”

Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”
“Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. Weâ€™d set up a partition, separate whatâ€™s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.”
“The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.”
“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”
“Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,”
“Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?”
“If you're not having fun, you're the asshole.”
“There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.”

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