Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Butch Trucks Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Billy Gibbons Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Seneca Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Stanwyck Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Beth Ditto Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Billy Bush Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Earl Wilson Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Blaise Pascal Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Josh Billings Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Nye Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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