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“Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.”

William Stanley Jevons

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All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective…

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What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

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“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.”

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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract…

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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

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It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

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Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week…

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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

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As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is,…

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In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

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The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate,…

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The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under…

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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it…

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“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same…

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