W Quotes
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“When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.”
“When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.”
“When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build boats for a hobby. Guess what I think would be the perfect job :)”
“When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing—along with His empowerment.”
Source: Alone With God
“When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.”
“When progressives and Christians speak of “nature,” they are not referring to the same thing. Within the framework of Christian thought, nature can only be understood in its relationship with the supernatural... In cutting nature off from supernature, the Enlightenment inaugurated a long, slowly unfurling contempt for both nature and supernature which reaches new heights every year.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.”
“When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja's heart.
This means that our physical nature conforms to our intentions,
and there is no division between our interior and exterior
aspects. This state of integrated mind and body action is
totally natural, and can be observed readily in the movements
of animals as they interact with their environment. Only human
beings seem to develop the need to be trained in natural body
motion.”
Source: Ninjutsu, History and Tradition
“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”
“When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.”
“When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.”
“When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.”
“When provoked, take a deep breath and pause before reacting. Lashing out aggressively may feel justified, but it usually makes things worse in the long term. The best response to disrespect is to maintain your principles and treat others with dignity, even if they don't reciprocate. Retaliation, whether immediate or delayed, only continues the cycle of disrespect. With patience and self-discipline, you can remain the calm eye of the storm and diffuse volatile situations. By not becoming like the wrongdoer, you can elevate the situation and transform it with level-headed strength.”
“When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“When Psammetichus found out what they were doing, he came after them. He caught up with them and made a long speech pleading with them and trying to persuade them not to abandon their ancestral deities and their wives and children. At this, one of the soldiers, so the story goes, pointed to his genitals and said that wherever this was he would have wives and children.”
Source: The Histories
“When psychologist Jennifer Aaker asked people on their deathbeds what they regretted most about their lives, the most common answer was "Wishing I had spent more time laughing with the people I love." Her work reminds us that a life (and career) devoid of levity is a far worse prospect than the moment-to-moment risk of the occasional flop.”
Source: Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
“When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayçiçegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having "an orientation inconsistent with societal values" is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the researchers call the personality-culture clash hypothesis: "Psychological adjustment depends on the degree of match between personality and the values of surrounding society." To the extent that introverts feel the need to explain, apologize, or feel guilty about what works best for them, they feel alienated not only from society but from themselves.”
“When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.”
“When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved”
“When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.”
“When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.”
“When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.”
“When public schools first began opening to girls, the curriculum was mainly based on memorization and beatings.”
Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
“When public spaces are privatized, loneliness and isolation grow.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.”
Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce
“When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.”
“When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'”
“When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.”
“When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.”
“When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.”
“When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.”
“When purpose is bigger than pain, purpose wins.”
“When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable”
Source: Understanding the Purpose & Power of Woman
“When purpose is tough , imagination becomes unshakable.”
“When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction rooted in early religious upbringing. Sometimes it arises from a contemporary image of the Church as authoritarian, chauvinistic, hypocritical, or unforgiving in nature. Though thirsting spiritually for a relationship, some find it too threatening or the prospects too unsatisfying to have to return to a painful image or experience associated with God and the religious realm. This group ay actually scorn the Church because it is not intellectually acceptable to live with a reality that can only be accepted on faith. "To believe in something non-verifiable,' they say, 'is to be weak in one's thinking.'
A point comes on the spiritual journey, however, when a healing of one's early religious experience must occur in order for wholeness to be realized. This healing requires a transformation of the person and of the traditional religious images, symbols, and words. Such transformation allows for a new way to experience these traditions and, therefore, a whole new appreciation of spirituality, It's coming full circle to wholeness.”
Source: The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith
“When pursued to the point where they materialize, big dreams transform lives.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.”
“When pursuing a meaningful relationship, shop local.”
“When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.”
“When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.”
“When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall.”
Source: On Eagles Wings:Rise
“When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.”
Source: The Hippopotamus
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”
“When Putin or any wealthy corrupted dictator can decide who is the US President, while Obama or the regular democratic authorities don't have the same power to decide who is the Russian or Chinese president, then the problem is not about Donald Trump, not about The Person,rather it is structural gap related to the Democracy and Dictatorship in deep substance and concept, and should be discussed, reflected, thought, spoke and solved from this very respect, not from drawing daily cartoons for Trump's hairstyle!”
“When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.”
“When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.”