Quotes with trade-offs

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  • Albrecht Durer My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Beau Bridges My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Socrates No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Benjamin Franklin No nation was ever ruined by trade.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anna Lindh Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bernie Sanders Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Adam Smith People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bill Frist Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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