Fisher's notes in the front cover of his own copy of A Short Treatise on Electricity and the Management of Electric Torpedoes (1868)
Fisher of Kilverstone (1973), Ruddock F. Mackay, Clarendon Press, p. 48.
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”
“Days are stupid length. They are just long enough to get regret and then you have to go to bed.”
on days.
Yeah, Yeah (2011)
“How stupid and shortsighted the ruling class really is! Cupidity is stone blind. It has no vision.”
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Context: How stupid and shortsighted the ruling class really is! Cupidity is stone blind. It has no vision. The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an "opening"; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and how it can be secured, but vision he has none — not the slightest. He knows nothing of the great throbbing world that spreads out in all directions. He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life.
Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6
“their actors choose a course of action depending on what their competitors do.”
Source: The transformation of corporate control, 1993, p. 33
Book I, Ch. 20
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