“ The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
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“ Science proceeds along a zig-zag path toward what we hope will be ultimate truth, a path that began with humanity's earliest attempts to fathom the cosmos and whose end we cannot predict. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
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“ Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ By capping dividend income... you don't have the jobs, growth and stimulus aspect of going to 100 percent elimination. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
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“ Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. ”
- Claude Bernard- Copy
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“ Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties. ”
- Charles W. Eliot- Copy
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
- Charles Sanders Peirce- Copy
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“ Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ”
- Thomas Dunn English- Copy
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“ At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo — slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. ”
- Bernard Cooper- Copy
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“ Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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“ Like happiness, philanthropy was born a twin. The giving that proceeds from a desire for personal credit or satisfaction may be tax-deductible, but it is scarcely philanthropy. ”
- Emerson F. Andrews- Copy
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“ Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Melancholy… is a complicated Distemper of the Brain and Heart: For as Melancholick people talk idly, it proceeds from the vice or fault of the Brain, and the inordination of the Animal Spirits dwelling in it; but as they become very sad and fearful, this is deservedly attributed to the Passion of the Heart. ”
- Thomas Willis- Copy
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“ The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ I am not opposed to sensible bankruptcy law reform, but this is a reverse Robin Hood - squeeze the down-on-their-luck middle class and impoverished Americans and give the proceeds to the financial services industry. ”
- Jack Reed- Copy
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“ This is largely because of the efforts of Janie and her husband. What they did as far as attaining income with securing new tapes not only helped current revenues but will show in future revenues as well. ”
- John Wilson- Copy
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“ We continue to believe we can generate compound annualized revenue growth, including 50% of the revenues from the joint ventures from which the company derives equity income, of between 4 to 6% through 2010. We also believe we can deliver double-digit compound earnings growth, excluding restructuring charges, over the next three to five years. ”
- Richard Clark- Copy
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“ Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet… ”
- Kabbalah- Copy
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“ Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly… ”
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi- Copy
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