Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Samuel Johnson The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lester Bangs The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Sun Tzu Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jim Rohn To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Confucius When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Leo Durocher Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
    Leo Durocher
    American professional baseball player, manager and coach (1905 - 1991)
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  • Douglas Adams You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Lee Simonson Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Erik Pepke Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
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  • George Washington 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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