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"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

"I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?"

"There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light."

"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."
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"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."

"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."

"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."

"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."

"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
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