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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Alexander Herzen Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John C. Maxwell A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
    John C. Maxwell
    American author, speaker, and pastor (1947 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Arthur Miller Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Anne Baxter Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
    Anne Baxter
    American actress (1923 - 1985)
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  • Aeschylus If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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