Procured Quotes
32 quotes by 27 authors
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
— Samuel Johnson
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything…
— Mark Twain
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Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.
— Sir Fulke Greville
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A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success…
— Don Kates
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God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes…
— Pope Innocent III
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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in…
— David Ricardo
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After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required,…
— David Ricardo
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
— Joseph Priestley
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Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions.…
— Stephen Charnock
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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would…
— Plato
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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for,…
— Markus Wolf
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Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
— William Bligh
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
— Ovid
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The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
— Samuel Johnson
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
— Epictetus
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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to…
— Dolley Madison
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