Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • James Thurber It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Corgan It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Richard D. Rosen It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Ben Hardy It's crazy. I couldn't believe it going from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men.' I was just looking to leave and get any job, so when I actually got the job, I was in dreamland.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Warren Buffett It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barry Sanders It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Greenwood It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • Ben Brantley It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Kurt Cobain It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
    Source: Sounds 10-1990
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Boris Becker It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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