
Top Gear, 2 November 2008; as quoted in "Clarkson joke sparks complaints" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7707641.stm, BBC News, 4 November 2008
Top Gear
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter III, The Paradox of the Stockpile, p. 23
Top Gear, 2 November 2008; as quoted in "Clarkson joke sparks complaints" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7707641.stm, BBC News, 4 November 2008
Top Gear
“There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world.”
Novalis (1829)
Context: There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world. Happiness and Misfortune stand in continual balance. Every Misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts through with the greater force.
“The whirling gears of progress have put the gear makers out of work.”
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 7, On The Teeth Of Wheels, p. 139
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 19
“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”
“The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.”
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 36, January 19, 1945.