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“Every soil does not produce every material.”

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, was a prominent French statesman, economist, and philosopher. He played a significant role in the Enlightenment in 18th-century France, known for his contributions to economic liberalism. more

“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.”

Use Purpose Easy Common Quality Proportion Divided Quantity Decay Pledge Susceptible Alterations

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“All money is essentially merchandize.”

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.”

Law Gold Universal Independent Silver Conventions Gold And Silver

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.”

People Affair

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.”

Doe Stills Government Audience Tvs Encouragement Magazines Comic Genre Opera Preservation Soap Funding Soap Operas Comic Strips Government Funding

Author:John Updike

“How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.”

Looks Long Facts Reality Eye Individual Hurt Sea Letters Baths Thorns Lawns Loops Rakes

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“A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.”

Self Turns Consciousness Self Consciousness Scorned

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“The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.”

World Needs Spirit Our Lives Strange Materials Leap Throat Emphasis Erotic Compounds Pillars Material World

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“The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.”

Country States Seems Easy United Fiction United States Democratic Various Fantastic Fiction Writers

Author:John Updike

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