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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive. Ha-Joon Chang

Political Free Intervention Beneficial Market Circumstances Minimum Minimum Wage See More Economic Free Market Mere Economists Makes Frequently Wage Wages However Legislation Decent Which Workers Certain Productive Show Theories

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. Helen Hayes

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. Henry Bessemer

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. Henry James Sumner Maine

Trust Sometimes Tyranny Doubt Ought Our Lodged No Doubt Mere Abuse Leave Authorities Regarded Us Engine Certainly Usurpation Oligarchy

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. Imre Lakatos

Clash About Point Mere Between Epistemology Technical

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts

Time Matters Relate Those Circumstances Penetrate Take Allow Mere Hover Always Surface Nor Up As Far As Which Far Depth Your Profession Appearances Suddenly Things

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. James Surowiecki

Buy History Business Opportunities Internet Google Down Record Netflix Take Excite Part Mere Missed Over Major Blockbuster Dollars Labels Than Refused The History Of Acquire Turned Fifty Less Series Apple Million Million Dollars Chance

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks. Jane Greer

Eyes Mouth Too Out Mere Legs Turned Large

Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another? Jane Welsh Carlyle

Man Woman Eyes Stronger Beast Power Lover Doubt Tremble Wild Wild Beast Physically Mysterious Individual Mere Over Feels Look She Himself Another Does How Than Then Should Her

The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography. Janet Malcolm

By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office. Janet Mock

Time Home Me Class School Become Out High Would Wearing High School Dresses Had Mere Sophomore Principal Became Protest Office Get Vice Sent Act Skirt Routine Presence By The Time

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Jean Paul

Pleasure Something More Variety Gives Mere Than Uniformity

As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course. Jenna McCarthy

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. Johannes Tauler

Saying Prayer Thoughts You Believe Reciting Consists Beads Allow Never Mere True Roam Psalms While Your Many Babbling

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge. John Burroughs

Love Knowledge Personality Mind Thinking Analytic Type Complete Synthetic Independent Emerges Entity Mentality Seldom Never Faculty Mere Knowing Operations Because Always Itself Human Which Whitman

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. John C. Wright

Truth Patience Philosopher Emotion Mere Leads Goes Where

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. John Grierson

Achieve Society Entering Neither Would Would-Be Individual Individual Initiative Absorb Mere New Without Nor Loss Process Which Central Capitalist View Interim Planning Function Initiative Socialist

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. John Moody

States East Physically Lay River Mere Mississippi Mississippi River Another Were Owned Them Separately Even United United States Railroads Nearly Extensions

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