Elasticity Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described…
— Matthew Rabin
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I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
— Samuel Johnson
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I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that…
— Frederick Douglass
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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
— Woodrow Wilson
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He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
— Nick Faldo
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we…
— Jeff Bezos
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called…
— Jan Morris
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In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear,…
— David Livingstone
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
— Bill Veeck
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Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity…
— Alexander Smith
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
— Kenneth Branagh
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not?…
— Yoko Ono
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that…
— Albert Schweitzer
Who Wrote These Elasticity Quotes
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