Quotes with scissors

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• A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

  Truman Capote
  American writer (1924 - 1984)
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• Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

  Sydney Smith
  English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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• We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

  Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III

  Alfred Marshall
  British economist (1842 - 1924)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incomplete
• directions
• reasonably
• production
• opposite
• governed

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