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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Martin Luther Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Al Capone When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Joseph Stalin When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Susan Sontag A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • George Orwell A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
    Politics and the English Language (1945)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • William Holden All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
    William Holden
    American actor (1918 - 1981)
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  • Rebecca West All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Walter Bagehot An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Laffer And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bill Brandt And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bo Bennett Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Arnold Rothstein Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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