The Meaning of MoneyJ. Murray, 1928 - 307 sider |
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Side 55 - Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), p. 36. 17 JF Williams and WW Nixon, The Athlete in the Making (Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1932), p. 153. 18 HJ Whigham, "American Sport from an English Point of View," Outlook, XCIII (November, 1909), 740.
Side 128 - ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Side 56 - I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable.
Side 56 - My father was waiting for me in the lodge, and we went up to his room (on the top story but one), and cried very much. And he told me, I remember, to take warning by the Marshalsea, and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a year and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy ; but that a shilling spent the other way would make him wretched.
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Side 54 - ... least a better one than it has had? I am convinced that the central problem is not the division of the spoils as organized labor would have us believe. Raising the price of prostitution does not make it the equivalent of love. Is our industrial discontent not in fact the expression of a hunger for a work life that has meaning in terms of higher and more enduring spiritual values? How can we preserve the wholeness of the personality if we are expected to worship God on Sundays and holidays and...
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Side 26 - Talcott Parsons, The Social System (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1951), p.