WN Stanley Quotes
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.
I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!
Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!
The luxury to drink from the wisdom of God and ability to connect with the heavens in prayer gives birth to a desire to get the job done...
Crying does not move God because if it did we would all cry ourselves to being millionaire...
The gift of faith causes a person to be bold and courageous, speaking things that be not as though they were, it is shameless and persistent it alway get results....
Success is not an event, it is the by product of the activities that transpired before engagement....
Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don’t mind eels except how they feels and maybe as meals. I knew there was hope for me.
You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them?
When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other.
Substance of your belief has nothing to do with the size of the book you use or how often you open it.
Some say God exists outside creation if in fact he did breath in Adams nostrils he became part of humanity and creation.
You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.
Love doesn't always curl your toes sometimes it takes a bite right out of your soul.
A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.
The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use.
A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.
In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.
So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
The only way to set yourself free is to meet each new challenge relatively.
God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me.
When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.