Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
PayPal claims it can help merchants expand into international markets; its system makes it easier to do business with customers in multiple… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should… — Carter Glass Copy Share Image
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all.… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Men dersom Nordfarernes Troe var saa stoer, De kunde faa Bergen henfløttet i Noer, Ved ongefahr hundrede Miile; Hvor skulle den ganske… — Petter Dass Copy Share Image
We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies…… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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