Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Gore Vidal It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Jane Austen It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edmund Burke It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Edgar W. Howe It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Ben E. King It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bill Bennett It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Bela Lugosi It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Barry McGuire It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bob Woodward It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
    Source: Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • William Penn It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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