The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness. |
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. |
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. |
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. |
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. |
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations |
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. |
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. |
There's a lot of concern about the dependability of touch-screen voting, for example. Vote by mail may be low tech, but it works. |
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. |
This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books. |
This was a big win. These guys are a good team, so we didn't expect that one goal to hold up. |
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature |
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. |
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. |