Commutativity Quotes & Sayings

If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government. — John Taylor

The United States is home to 60 million pigs. It was home to 60 million pigs in 1990, too, and those pigs produced about 15.4 billion pounds of meat. Now, the same number of pigs produce 21.7 billion pounds of meat — Andy Sharpless

The elderly are useless eaters. — Henry A. Kissinger

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out. — Victoria Chang

The easiest way to get along in life is to meddle as little as possible. — Salla Simukka

The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. — Basil Hiley

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in. — Beverly Lowry

We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. — Warren Buffett

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it. — Joe Nocera

I see ashes under the skin of her face. Disintegration. What terrible anxiety I feel. I want to put my arms around her. I feel her receding into death and I am willing to enter death to follow her, to embrace her. She is dying before my eyes. Her tantalizing, somber beauty is dying. Her strange, manlike strength. — Anais Nin

Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point. — John Dee

Linux had paid little attention to the games themselves. The sport of blood had never held him. Linux had a warrior's scorn for gladiators and the maiming of man or beast as entertainment. But for Jacob, a young Judean lad with no concept of Roman games, it clearly had been a terrible shock. The boy's occasional shudder indicated the level of his distress. — Janette Oke