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“The Industrial Revolution brought forth a transformation in the lives of women, as they moved from the domestic sphere to the factories, facing long hours of toil and challenging conditions. This shift not only altered their economic roles but also laid the groundwork for the questioning of established gender norms.”

Suffering Women Factories Working Mills Industrial Revolution

Author:Friedrich Engels

“Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.”

Advantage Jew Credit Farmers Unlimited Mills Ever After Indebtedness Storekeeper

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.”

World Writing I Can Moments Joy Grief Metaphor Nightmare Cash Mills Burnout Burn Out

Author:Grant Morrison

“In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.”

Two Imagination Memories Fiction Impossible Witness Ingredients Broads Mills Processing

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.”

Men Real Successful Failing Hero Males Novelists Adore Publishers Mills Emulate Real Men Boon

Author:P. C. Cast

“Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.”

Love Faithful Mills Being Faithful

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.”

Art Turns Focus Thousand Streams Intensity Meadows Mills One Deep

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Mind Long Past Water Hours Fields Wind Casts Forests Wheels Autumn Spells Grind Mills Binding Long Day Reaper Autumn Wind

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.”

Made Sound Water Scene Grateful Painter Posts Etc Rotten Escaping Mills I Am Grateful Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.”

Stills Sides Flow Wheels Brooks Mills Noisy

Author:Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

“The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.”

Running Easy Answers Share Pure Gold Luck Appreciated Unlikely Mills Tokens Good Questions Easy Answers

Book:Coll Sci Pap V5

Source: Coll Sci Pap V5

“The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.”

Problem Might Moral Saws Fit Judgment Solutions Economics Ultimate Fruit Toil Distribution Mills Calculus Moral Judgment

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.”

Thinking Knows Want Hard Actors Careers Active These Days Mills Being Myself

Author:Liev Schreiber

“Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.”

Artist Mills Cockroaches

Author:Elaine de Kooning

“The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.”

Mind Turns Focus Stones Stress Mere Dust Operations Inward Grind Mills Incessant

Book:Faustus

Source: Faustus

“Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!”

Force Water Mathematics Raises Vanity Wheels Fifty Yards Geometry Mills Reservoirs Drop Of Water Euler

Author:Frederick The Great

“A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.”

Has Beens Reason Film Materials Educational Documentaries Mills

Book:Film as Art

Source: Film as Art

“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.”

Long Sound Water Poor Paint Delight Cease Posts Sheep Toms Rotten Escaping Mills Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.”

Way Believe Doe Different Running Vision Conscious Relief Shy Inquiry Exaggeration Mills One Sided

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.”

World Writing Believe May Has Beens Book Done Young Political I Believe Community Principles Economy Protection Harm Passages Favour Mills Political Economy

Author:Richard Cobden

“I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.”

Men Reason Opinion Too Much Checks Protest Adam Inquiry Mills Stagnant Deference

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”

Ifs Tradition Wheels Mills

Author:Colin MacInnes

“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”

“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).”

Source: The New Psychohistory

“John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls for civility. He points out that civility ends up getting defined by the people who are in charge. And you'll notice that when people argue for civility, they tend to actually believe that whatever they say is civil. And if they're angry about it, it's righteous rage. But if you say it and it's kind of sharp or mean, then it's incivil. ... And sometimes, disagreement-to be productive-can't be all that civil.”

People Ifs Should Believe Kind Mean Book Ends Sometimes Liberty Wonderful Concerned Angry Rage Arguing Defined Productive Righteous Civility Disagreement Mills

Author:Greg Lukianoff

“Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.”

“No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.”

Years Has Beens Magic England Buried Mills Cemetery Shady Cambridge

Author:Sophie Hannah

“The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.”

Turns Grows Imagine Imagine That Corn Conceit Mills

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.”

May Turns Power Advantage Harm Valleys Mills

Book:Poems of King Alfred

Source: Poems of King Alfred

“The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.”

Humans Important Character Evil Office Direct Presses Intellect Newspapers Bread Servant Meals Grain Ministry Grind Mills

Author:William C. Bryant

“The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.”

Ifs Humans Heart Stills Turns Human Heart Grind Wheat Mills Bruises Flour

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.”

Asks Slave Mills Gaza

Author:John Milton

“I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?”

Firsts Doe Walks Fire Middle Fields Faults Grass Flames Going Away Frustrated Rumor Mills Exposing

Author:Amy Grant

“Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.”

Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

“[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.”

Believe Imagine Ocean Method Size Range Sensible Imagine That Smooth Shrinks Jane Harmonious Mills Ponds Austen Atlantic Ocean

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“The mills of God grind slowly.”

Grind Retribution Mills Exactness Time Proverbs Minor Things Irish Proverbs Daily Grind

Author:Lord Acton

“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”

People Thinking Men Water Differences Blood Machines Mills

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?”

People Break Wind Capable Horse Critics Corn Mills

Author:J. G. Holland

“It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.”

Easy Novel Steel Mills Manuscripts

Author:Golo Mann

“One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.”

Mind May Country Accounts Wheels Mills

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.”

Made Running Imagination Pay Mines Mountain Majors Active Range Transforming Mills Adept Mountain Ranges

Book:Stars Come Out Within

Source: Stars Come Out Within

“I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.”

Littles Born My Family Towns Patterns Cotton Mills Little Towns Glasgow Paisley

Author:Gerard Butler

“My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.”

Firsts Jobs Stuff Cities Plant Slave Treated Chicago Steel Mills Kansas Cab Kansas City

Author:Ed Asner

“All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.”

Littles Made Different Done Facts Running Sin Succeed Mere Insult Mills Unforgivable Everyman Unforgivable Sin

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.”

Kind Art Play Common Subjects Jokes Machines Mathematics Library Combination Metaphysics Chaotic Mills Propensity

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.”

Enough Wanted Streets Built Independent Boring Bridges Teenage Stamps Mills Forts So Boring Food Stamps Cedars Street Life Teenage Life Aberdeen

Author:Kurt Cobain

“The Mill gets by going.”

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.”

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.”

Way Felt Born Grew Grew Up My Family Towns South Spots Ran Rooted Grandfather My Grandfather Georgia Mayors Cotton Mills

Author:Frances Mayes