Arthur Young Quotes

• God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

  Arthur Young

  Inspirational, God, Sleep

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• Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

  Arthur Young

  Class, Idiot, Poor

  "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

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• The magic of property turns sand to gold.

  Arthur Young

  Magic, Gold, Sand

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France”, p.74

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• The purpose creates the machine.

  Arthur Young

  Purpose, Machines

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Understanding, Purpose

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• The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

  Arthur Young

  Life, Sparks, Spirit

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• Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

  Arthur Young

  Believe, Taken, Blessing

  Arthur Young (1889). “Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789”

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• There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

  Arthur Young

  Medicine, Differences, Physicians

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.51

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• Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

  Arthur Young

  Science, Ifs

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• The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

  Arthur Young

  Self, Connected, Universe

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