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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.


Thorstein Veblen

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
ELBERT HUBBARD Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
ELBERT HUBBARD As STEVE KEEN Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves ...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
ROBIN HOBB It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow whe...
MARTIN BELL You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.
STEPHEN C PAUL Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most nai...
MILAN KUNDERA We're not only doing research but doing research to improve a patient outcome, which is something th...
DR. RICH ROVIN I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
JERRY ONLY We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ...
JERRY ONLY My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
JERRY ONLY Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you pro...
JERRY ONLY There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected e...
JERRY ONLY Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
JERRY ONLY The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the wh...
JERRY ONLY We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guest...
JERRY ONLY We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
JERRY ONLY The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10...
JERRY ONLY When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military....
CHRIS KYLE I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious m...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
ELEANORA DUSE Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
BOB HOPE It is the only way citizens of Pennsylvania can attain any confidence in the potential outcome of th...
BARRY KAUFFMAN In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...
FULTON J. SHEEN We can only start to ask some of these questions a generation or two after a tragedy of this magnitu...
STEVEN MARTIN One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
LEIGH HUNT It is quite unfortunate that Nigerians buy all the lies they trade through the media. This is the on...
CLARIS YETUNDE RAMSIN You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one...
LOU BROCK The research shows that if you only have one, two or three blacks [on a jury] or as many as four, th...
DAVID BALDUS I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ...
WILLIAM GIBSON There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the star...
KARL LEHMANN Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palac...
EIJI YOSHIKAWA We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious...
ALFONSO SCANIO We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious...
ALFONSO PECORARO SCANIO We only acquire companies that put us in a position where we can grow,
WAYNE HUIZENGA Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or usef...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the mi...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewh...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Invention is the mother of necessity.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human inst...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised me...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably th...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school ...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Servants should not only show a servile disposition, but it is quite as imperative that they should ...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human inst...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherw...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN [T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's mora...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
THORSTEIN VEBLEN In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school ...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
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THORSTEIN VEBLEN The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's ...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN One of Life's most valuable lessons is to achieve one's ultimate goal only to be disappointed by the...
QUINN STILLETTO There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.
CARL ROWAN There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.
HELEN ROWLAND A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not sta...
BUDDHA Miracles only grow where you plant them.
CECELIA AHERN AHERN Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He bel...
ALONZO CHURCH The only place where success comes before hard work is in the dictionary but in this real world, you...
SUNDAY ADELAJA One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. TOMPKINS Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there b...
RASHEDUR RYAN RAHMAN Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can ...
ADAM MANSBACH I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the t...
BHAGAT SINGH The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of refer...
SORIN CERIN The wealth in wisdom far outweighs any amount of monetary wealth. You can only be robbed of one.
FATHOM Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
SEAMUS HEANEY I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit...
JACK LOWDEN The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of ...
A. P. HERBERT Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to rende...
THOMAS SZASZ The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...
JAMES CAMERON It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
HERBERT SAMUEL It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
HERBERT SAMUAL The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
STEPHEN KING Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still ...
JOHN L. PHILLIPS I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Change is of no use if it's only to better the world, to make the first bit of Change that will make...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The economy's increasing reliance on unprecedented levels of debt is clearly unsustainable and extre...
CHARLES MCMILLION It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the...
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