Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • David Hare Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
    Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Angela Davis Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bob Knight Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Alexander Downer Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Brian De Palma Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Louisa May Alcott What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • David Malouf What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Adam Arkin What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bella Freud What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Richard Owen Cambridge What is the worth of any thing,
    But for the happiness 'twill bring?
    Source: Learning 23
    Richard Owen Cambridge
    British poet (1717 - 1802)
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