Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2216.

  • Peter de Vries The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Billy Beane The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adrian Lyne The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • David Hume The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
    Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    Source: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bob Harper The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carson McCullers The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
    Source: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943)
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Horace Greeley The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
    O. J. Simpson
     
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Assata Shakur The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Olson The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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