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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new." »Machiavelli
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else." »William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." »George Bernard Shaw
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income." »Errol Flynn
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"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual." »C. C. Colton
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"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." »Robertson Davies
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"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." »Robertson Davies
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"gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation." »La Bruy?re
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things." »Henry James
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"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." »Publilius Syrus
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others." »Pliny the Elder
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"Many receive advice, few profit by it." »Publilius Syrus
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
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"They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach." »Luigi Barzini
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"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." »Plutarch
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"There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by." »George Meredith
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"Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them." »Dan McKinnon
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"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure." »Horace
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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" »Bible, Mark 8:36
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"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?" »Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26
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"Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction." »Chinese
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." »Churton Collins
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"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." »John C. Maxwell
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"There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them." »J. Paul Getty
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit." »Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
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