Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2216.

  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Walt Whitman To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • David Viscott To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Pat Riley To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barry Ritholtz To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Brent Sexton To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Ernst Fischer To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Tryon Edwards To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • B. F. Skinner To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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