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“Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.”
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 5, p. 71
“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
As quoted in International Proverbs (2000) by Luzano Pancho Canlas, p. 40
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 5, How Many Are Too Many? Size of Coalitions, p. 88.
“Relatively unsuccessful firms would be more likely to innovate than relatively successful firms.”
Source: A behavioral theory of the firm, 1959, p. 188
“If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.”
As quoted in "Wilson vs Watson: The blessing of great enemies" by Amanda Gefter in New Scientist (10 September 2009) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17771-wilson-vs-watson-the-blessing-of-great-enemies.html; this is a play upon the famous statement by Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Source: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), Ch. 5
“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 24e
"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees.”
“Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?”
Part 2, Chapter 4
Babel-17 (1966)
“Them [gas] prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.”
Morning Constitutions (2007)
“Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.”
The Registrar
All the Names (1997)
“I'm gonna slide into those DMs harder than Chase Utley slides into second.”
As quoted on Twitter (10 August 2018) https://twitter.com/Alice_Moran/status/1027933019636736000
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 50
Part 4, section 1.
The Cunning Man (1994)
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.”
La vie est hérissée de ces épines, et je n'y sais d'autre remède que de cultiver son jardin.
Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1882], vol. XIV, letter # 7692 (p. 478)
Citas
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 57