If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields. . . leading towards a "system of systems. ". . . I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse. . . . (vi). . . the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness.
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.