Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Ann Veneman I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Sarah Bernhardt I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Bruce Chatwin I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Josh Billings I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Henry James I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Charles Dickens I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anne Tyler I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Asa Gray I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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