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«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cent, cravings, economy, global, Global economy, PER, per cent, population, supplying
«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cent, cravings, economy, global, Global economy, PER, per cent, population, supplying
«The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.»
«BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. --Henry Ward Beecher»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Beecher, Henry, Henry Ward Beecher, instance, providing, supplying, take to, take to be, ward
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An Ancient, art museums, attest, attested, attesting, attests, Brune, come in handy, distil, distinguish, Egyptian, engaged, exhibit, flock, formerly, gratifying, grind, levity, modern medicine, money supply, mummies, mummy, physic, pigment, pigments, plunder, respecting, respect for the dead, rhyme, shrunken, sinner, supplying, The Limit, The Mummy, tomb
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
farmer, food supply, furnishes, lumbering, lumbers, plow, raw material, raw materials, religiously, supplying, vegetable
«Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services»
Author: Henry Ford
| About:
Money,
Words
| Keywords:
covering, goods, money supply, prices, services, speculation, supplying
«The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products»
«The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
friendlier, friendly, lacks, mutual, rule of, sincere, supplying, sympathy, using, with sympathy
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