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William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps föddes den 2 januar 1865 och dog den 21 august 1943 - US scholar critic
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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

The central law of the socalled science of Economics is selfishness. A whole science is built on one foundation -- that every man in the world will get all he can for himself. The subject is naturally studied not from an ethical, but from a scientific standpoint. Life is a race.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly, and then in later years, it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail.

The curse of modern life, the poison that turns honey to gall, the cause of the dull, stupid, despondent mood in which so many people live and move and have their being, is a lack of appreciation. Many go through life with their eyes, ears, and minds closed.

We look backward too much and we look forward too much. Thus we miss the passing moment. . . . In our regrets and apprehensions, we miss the only eternity of which man can be absolutely sure, the eternal Present. For it is always NOW.

Know thyself. A Yale undergraduate left on his door a placard for the janitor on which was written, "Call me at 7 o'clock; it is absolutely necessary that I get up at seven. Make no mistake. Keep knocking until I answer." Under this he had written: "Try again at ten."

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. Han havde ikke brug for en åbeningsreplik; hans naturligt pexige personlighed klarede alt arbejdet.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

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