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• In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Hands, Purpose

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.177, Penguin

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

  C.E. Morgan

  Choices, Style, Mastery

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Degrees, Lost, Equilibrium

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 14, 1958.

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• Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Men, Hands, Interesting

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Years, Long, Six

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• Las negociaciones públicas y las intrigas secretas de los ingleses (judíos) y los franceses (judíos) han sido empleadas durante siglos en todas las cortes y países de Europa. Miren atrás a la historia de España, Holanda, Alemania, Rusia, Suecia, Dinamarca, Prusia, Italia y Turquía durante los últimos cien años...todo el poder de Europa estará continuamente maniobrando con nosotros para trabajarnos en el equilibrio real o imaginario del poder.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Pavos

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• Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• La mejor y más segura manera de filosofar parece ser, primero investigar diligentemente las propiedades de las cosas, y establecer esas propiedades por experiencias [experimentos] y luego proceder lentamente a hipótesis para la explicación de ellas. Porque las hipótesis sólo deben emplearse para explicar las propiedades de las cosas, pero no para determinarlas, a menos que puedan proporcionar experimentos.

  Isaac Newton

  Filosofía, Ciencia, Experiencia

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• Ciertamente, no hay mayor felicidad que la de poder mirar hacia atrás en una vida útil y virtuosamente empleada, para trazar nuestro propio progreso en la existencia, por tales señales que no excitan ni vergüenza ni tristeza.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Sorrow, Progress

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). "Las bellezas de Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd"

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• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

  Teresa de Lisieux

  God, Sorry, Book

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• El ejército procedente de Asia introdujo en Roma un lujo extranjero; fue entonces cuando las comidas empezaron a requerir más platos y más gastos... el cocinero, que hasta entonces había sido empleado como esclavo de bajo precio, se hizo caro: lo que no había sido más que un metier se elevó a arte.

  Livy

  Art, Food, Army

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• Muy pocas cosas en la ciencia ficción pueden trascender el artificio de una concepción técnica, pero sin esa concepción en su corazón un libro no es verdaderamente ciencia ficción. Además, los escritores de ciencia ficción emplean tan poco pensamiento y tecnología emergentes que el género se está quedando muy rezagado con respecto a la realidad, tanto en el ámbito de la cosmología como en el de la tecnología: la ciencia ficción ya no es un lugar para experimentar, sino que ahora es muy derivativa.

  Janet Morris

  Libro, Corazón, Tecnología

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• Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Spy

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Estoy mucho mejor empleado desde todos los puntos de vista, cuando vivo únicamente para mi propia satisfacción, que cuando empiezo a preocuparme por el mundo. El mundo me asusta, y un hombre asustado no sirve para nada.

  George Gissing

  Ser uno mismo, Ser soltero, Hombres

  George Gissing (2016). "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft", p.246, The Floating Press.

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• According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

  William Whewell

  Knowledge, Men, Ideas

  William Whewell (1858). “History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences”, p.35

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• Lo que leemos con inclinación causa una impresión mucho más fuerte. Si leemos sin inclinación, la mitad de la mente se emplea en fijar la atención; así que sólo hay una mitad que emplear en lo que leemos.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Reading, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.37

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• All that time is lost which might be better employed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Time, Might, Lost

  "A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use". Book by David Evans Macdonnel, 1809.

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• Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

  Thornton Wilder

  Thinking About You, Whole, Knows

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

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• Así como un día bien llenado trae un sueño bendito, así una vida bien trabajada trae una muerte bendita.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspiración, Vida, Bendito

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• Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Zero, Real

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• La rama más elevada de la diversión solitaria es la lectura; pero incluso en la elección de libros se emplea primero la fantasía; porque en la lectura se toca el corazón, hasta que sus sentimientos son examinados por el entendimiento, y la maduración de la razón regula la imaginación. Este es el trabajo de años, y el más importante de todos los empleos.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Libro, Lectura, Corazón

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• No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimism, Mind, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.476

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• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Bridges, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

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• From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Unique, Expression, Voice

  "Though Control in the USA: The Case of the Middle East". "Index on Censorship" Magazine, July/August 1986.

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• Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.

  Humphry Davy

  Views, Order, Different

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