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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."

Steinem, Gloria on gambling    Share

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Steinem, Gloria on power    Share

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Steinem, Gloria on writers and writing    Share

"Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on repetition    Share

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

Shaw, George Bernard on economy and economics
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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Pythagoras on silence    Share

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