Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Biz Stone In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Adam Ferguson In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
    Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carroll Quigley In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ben Hecht In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Lord Chesterfield In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William Congreve In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Andrew Cohen In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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