Quotes About Vilfredo

#1. To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

George Santayana

#2. Empirical laws [ ... ] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

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#3. Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

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#4. For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

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#5. All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.

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#6. He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. Your Majesty.

Kimberly Derting

#7. Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

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#8. The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

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#9. Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

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#10. The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

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#11. If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!

Shawn Stockman

#12. It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

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#13. The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

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#14. If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.

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#15. Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.

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#16. 80% of results come from 20% of effort/time

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#17. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.

Thor Heyerdahl

#18. My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

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#19. For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

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#20. In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

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#21. When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

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#22. Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

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#23. The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.

Calvin Demmer

#24. Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

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#25. I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.

Kelly Cherry

#26. The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

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#27. Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

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#28. It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

Rashida Jones

#29. The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

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#30. The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

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#31. Even still, as good as she looked all decked out, she looked even

S.C. Stephens

#32. Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [ ... ] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[ ... ]

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