It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in… — William James Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney had a fundraiser in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi Copy Share Image
There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a… — Barnabe Rich Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
