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The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people. ↗

— Todd English

#fix #get #going #good #hate

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#always #because #competitive #did #even

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#far #formed #man #mind #more

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemistry #enthusiasm #expectations #famous #federal

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#couple #did #generosity #grandfather #hand

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#drinking #felt #holy #i #miss