Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Patrick Henry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Mae West It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • John Keats It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Bette Davis It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
    Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Andrew Jackson It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Douglas Adams It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • James Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Alfred Jarry It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aeschylus It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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