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• When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Vanity, Quality, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1862). “Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.460

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• I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Home, Thinking, Support

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.

  Norbert Wiener

  Determination, Inspire, May

  Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.25, MIT Press

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• I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony.
  
  I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

  Lester Holt

  Morning, Independent, Echoes

  "Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.

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• When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

  Heywood Broun

  Baseball, Feet, Together

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• I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.

  Christoph Waltz

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

  J. L. Austin

  Thinking, Apologizing, Forget

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• It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

  Riyad Mansour

  Fashion, Creativity, Community

  "Fashion models strut in United Nations debate chambers" by Lorenzo Ferrigno, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2014.

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• It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cute, Children, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

  Richard Simmons

  Names, People, Upset

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

  Jack Johnson

  Character, Fighting, Battle

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• "Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six years, and yet every time I hear that music, I turn around wondering who they're playing it for."

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Years, Office

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• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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• I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Abuse, Mind

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Delight, Made

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.208

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• It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

  Jane Austen

  Couple, Numbers, Rooms

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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• I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.

  Walter Kohn

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  Plutarch

  Real, Character, Men

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• I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Mean, Loving You

  Letter to Michele Besso, January 6, 1948.

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• [Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Hard Work, Science

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• But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.

  Humphry Davy

  Country, War, Men

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• Remarks are not literature.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Literature

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, Doe

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

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