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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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"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Spare no expense to save money on this one." »Samuel Goldwyn
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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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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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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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"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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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." »Lord 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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"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable." »Evelyn Waugh
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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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"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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"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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"personal isn't the same as important." »Terry Pratchett
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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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"Nothing endures but personal qualities." »Walt Whitman
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"“Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."" »Steve Maraboli
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"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal passion, that's as unique as his DNA" »The Omani Shed
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"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions." »Cullen Hightower
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""Experience is the best teacher- personal but also vicarious"" »Yassine Aumerally
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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams
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"Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit." »Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
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"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic." »Anais Nin
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"The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns." »Martin Luther
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"That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody." »Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
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