Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Paul Auster Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
    Moon Palace (2010) 601
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Harry Browne Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Evil report carries further than any applause.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Samuel Johnson Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adrienne Rich False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Don Marquis Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Les Brown Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Margaret Mitchell Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bruce Jackson Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bill Simmons First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Anna Lindh Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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