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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 42 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 202 - The Span of Control: Fact or Fable?" Advanced Management, vol. 20 (November, 1955), pp. 5-13; and Gerald C.
Page 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...
Page 13 - A simple invention it was in the old-world Grazier, — sick of lugging his slow Ox about the country till he got it bartered for corn or oil, — to take a piece of Leather, and thereon scratch or stamp the mere Figure of an Ox (or Pecus) ; put it in his pocket, and call it Pecunia, Money. Yet hereby did Barter grow Sale, the Leather Money is now Golden and Paper, and all miracles have been outmiracled: for there are Eothschilds and English National Debts ; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to...
Page 41 - It is curious to observe how, through the wise and beneficent arrangement of Providence, men thus do the greatest service to the public when they are thinking of nothing but their own gain ',3 so sang the angels " (Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, p.
Page 26 - Talcott Parsons, The Social System (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1951), p.