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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Spare no expense to save money on this one." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking
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"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain." »Marquis de Sade
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." »Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." »Lord Chesterfield
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"The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not." »William Dugger
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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." »Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005
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"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." »Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
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"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life." »Robert Byrne
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"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable." »Evelyn Waugh
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"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning." »W. B. Yeats
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live." »Voltaire
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete." »Confucius
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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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