Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Barry Sternlicht Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bethany McLean Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Prosperity and is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Eric Butterworth Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Alan Greenspan Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bee Wilson Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Matthew Arnold Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Abbe Pierre Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
    Eva Figes
     
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  • John Milton Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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