Citations sur moyenne
Une collection de citations sur le thème de moyenne, moyen, pluie, bien-être.
Citations sur moyenne

Charité

Les sept lampes de l'architecture, 1849 (Mercure de France, 1904)


To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I

Ecrits contre le colonialisme

Source: Mémoires de Mme de Tourzel, gouvernante des enfants de France pendant les années 1789 à 1795
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Dans son ouvrage : Le Capitalisme de la séduction
Les confessions d'un homme en trop, 1990
Leçons VI Les enfants du Texte. Étude sur la fonction parentale des États

Traité sur l'éducation des femmes, 1783, Essai sur l'éducation des femmes

Présence au monde moderne, 1948

“Par le moyen de l'homme, l'impossible presse sur le réel.”
Tel quel

Épigraphe française du Meilleur des mondes (1932) d’Aldous Huxley.

La France socialiste: notes d'histoire contemporaine

Manifeste des Plébéien
Sur l'éducation
Chien Blanc, 1970

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Déclaration après les élections municipales d'avril 1931

La foi au prix du doute, "Encore quarante jours", 1980

But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Discours au Congrès lors de sa démission (18 avril 1951)
There had been many things I had not really understood. I had regarded the Communist Party as a poor man’s party, and thought the presence of certain men of wealth within it accidental. I now saw this was no accident. I regarded the Party as a monolithic organization with the leadership in the National Committee and the National Board. Now I saw this was only a facade placed there by the movement to create the illusion of the poor man’s party; it was in reality a device to control the “common man” they so raucously championed.
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La théorie de Newton exige que l'univers ait une sorte de centre, où la densité des étoiles est maximum, et que cette densité diminue au fur et à mesure qu'on avance du centre vers l'extérieur. On n'arrive à se libérer des difficultés décrites qu'au prix d'une modification et d'une complication de la loi de Newton , qui ne sont fondées ni sur l'expérience ni sur la théorie.
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La relativité, 1956

I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10⁹, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent. chance of mating the right identification after five minutes of questioning.
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, 1950

Another thing that struck me was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro. American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. […] The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking - the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this - is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. […] Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behaviour and an Indian soul.
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« Il faut défendre la société » — Cours au Collège de France, 1976, Cours du 28 janvier 1976

“La phrase de l’imposture, de tous les reniements, est celle-ci : la fin justifie les moyens.”
Je gagne toujours à la fin, 2003

Une approche fractale des marchés, 2005

Leur morale et la nôtre, 1938
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Dialectique du moi et de l'inconscient, 1933

Lettre du [19, janvier, 1878] à Madame Roger des Genettes.
Correspondance

Entretiens avec Jacques Ellul, 1994
“Les gens trouveront toujours un moyen pour faire ce qu'ils ont envie de faire”
L'Île flottante infestée de requin, 1993

Les Comédiens sans le savoir 1846

Discours, Discours contre la loi martiale, [21, octobre, 1789]

La France socialiste: notes d'histoire contemporaine

Pour Lepelletier, aristocrate régicide de la Montagne assassiné, 21 janvier 1793
Discours

La Peste Noire à Florence (Première Journée, Introduction)

112, L'Amour fou/Gallimard-Folio
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Les confessions d'un homme en trop, 1990

Discours, Pour la non-rééligibilité des députés, [18, mai, 1791]

“La cocaïne est le moyen que Dieu a trouvé pour nous faire comprendre que nous avons trop d'argent.”
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