Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Source: Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adam Savage In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Aleister Crowley Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Charles Dickens Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Lillian Hellman Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Persius Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Asa Gray Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Jean Renoir Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
    Jean Renoir
    French film director (1894 - 1979)
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