Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 2216.

  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Lee One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Bob Newhart One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Arthur Levitt One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Dan Quayle One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Henry Ford Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
    Clark Kenneth
     
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bob Harper Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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