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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.


Alfred Korzybski

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Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
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MICHAEL POLANYI Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA