Continuous Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:

    The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.
    Jessie Bernard (20th century)

    The power that I have on you is to spare you;
    The malice towards you, to forgive you. Live,
    And deal with others better.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)