"The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy ."
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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
"Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations."
"I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints."
"The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"
"The time is out of joint."
"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
"When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere."
"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."
"Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks"
"I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything."
"If I ever get married, I'd like to pick a place so hard to reach that only a few people would turn up-like the North Pole. A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there."
"The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it."
"Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active."
"If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie."
"I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did."
"I don't smoke as many joints as I used to."
"Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his."
"A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others."
"I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out"
"If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it."