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“It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.”

Knows Ends Matter Past Fairs Portions Things That Matter

Author:Esther Meynell

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in itsentirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever inour historical effort to redeem the whole country.”

Important Ends Country States Whole Effort Land Increase Historical Israel Portions Smallest Palestine Zionist Facilitate Levers

Author:David

“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”

Inspirational Firsts I Can Ends Night Fall Numbers Audience Laughter Dance Casts Ass Portions Splits Saturday Fever Saturday Night Saturday Night Fever

Author:Adam Garcia

“No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

Ends Etc Cash Portions Exploitation Wages Bourgeoisie Landlord Labourers Shopkeepers

Book:Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

Source: Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

“The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.”

Ends Problem Social Effort Cities Modern Conditions Solutions Aids Portions Confined Settlement Great Cities Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.”

Men May Important Ends Lasts Used Taken Example Degrees Benefits Increase Instance Meals Enjoyment Portions Quantity Commodity Utility Decrease Axioms

Book:Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons

Source: Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons