Jean baptiste say quotes about baby
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- Jean-Baptiste: At age ten one doesn't know the world needs to be changed.
- Guy: Give me Le Guen.
- L'Admiral: No.
- Guy: What will you do with him?
- L'Admiral: I'm awaiting orders from Paris.
- Guy: Let me question him. What he knows about the communist networks and leaders is of major interest to us.
- L'Admiral: Three points, Mr. Asselin. One: Le Guen doesn't talk. He hasn't spoken since his arrest. Not even to my chief of staff - his classmate. Two: If I hand him over to you, he might talk. But I'd rather not. We know your methods. Three: Le Guen is a sailor. His case will be tried by sailors. Any relevant information will be passed along to you.
- Guy: Thanks. Another example of Navy-Police cooperation. That's what makes empires great.
- Eliane: She had made her choice. And I didn't want to see it, I didn't want to understand. She loved him. He was her first love. Nothing would stop her.
- Mme. Minh Tam: You have to forget this man, Lili. I'll never understand French love stories. They're all about madness, fury, suffering. They're similar to our war stories. You know the secret. I've told you already.
- Eliane: Yes, I know. Indifference.
- Jean-Baptiste: At age ten one doesn't know the w
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Quotes from Jean-Baptiste Say
Originally published in 2007.
While preparing my article Reisman Insights Without George Reisman, I took the opportunity to read Jean-Baptiste Say’s Traité d’économie politique in an English translation which is available on the web. The following is a collection of quotes that I found particularly important and/or interesting.
The book was written in 1803, and the translation was made shortly afterwards. For this reason, some words have an unfamiliar spelling, and occasionally a word is used in an unfamiliar sense. Also, the frequent use of comma might be slightly disturbing to a modern reader. Or that “cannot” is written “can not”.
And although I have grouped the quotes under sub-headings, this is not intended as a systematic presentation of Say´s economics.
On theory and practice
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! What is theory, if it be not a knowledge of the laws which connect effects with their causes, or facts with facts? And who can be better acquainted with facts than the theorist who surveys them under all their aspects, and comprehends their relation to each other? And what is practice without theory, but the employment of means without knowing how or why they act? (Introduction, 1.2
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Plato believed defer great souls and originative talents bring out “offspring” which can skin enjoyed emergency others: sagacity, virtue, metrics, art, selfrestraint, justice, courier the criticize (340s BC)
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