"I won't close down a business of subnormal……" — Warren Buffett

"I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable."

— Warren Buffett

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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,… — Ezra Taft Benson
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary… — Ezra Taft Benson
When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of… — Ezra Taft Benson
Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our… — Ezra Taft Benson
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God… — Lewis Black
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,… — Kirk Cameron
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink
For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and… — Irenaeus of Lyons
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just… — Wayne Grudem

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