#fit

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. ↗

— Adam Smith

#class-warfare #economics #labor #money #profit

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#janet-fitch #white-oleander #nature

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#narrator #the-great-gatsby #remember

Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#debra-moffitt #following-a-unique-path #life-journey #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul-dance

Burying his face in Emma's neck, Noah's cries quieted as Emma hummed to him. Their food arrived then. "Wanna come to Daddy, Little Man, so Mama can eat? ↗

— Katie Ashley

#food

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #benefit #benefits #how #i

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#fit #fitter-happier #health #love #mind

Se habia arreglado para la boda, llevando un esmoquin negro a la medida y su mejor sonrisa depravada ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick Finale

#fallen-angel #fitzpatrick #love #nora #patch

What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl i love? ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush- #love