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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the…
— Augustin Thierry
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air…
— Lester R. Brown
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly, we…
— John Miller
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THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
— Robert Orben
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
— Simon Sinek
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Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting…
— Andre Simon
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The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning…
— Rupert Murdoch
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To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more…
— Karl Popper
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So you walk up to this man sinner and you say, "God loves you and He has a wonderful plan for your life!" and he…
— Paul Washer
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Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
— Hugh B. Brown
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There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation
— Jim Rohn
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An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and…
— Vladimir Putin
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Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep…
— Dean Rusk
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Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a…
— Al Gore
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