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  • A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
        Adam Smith   Best?
  • There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
        Milton Friedman   Best?
  • If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of propotion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadance, no infirmity of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
        Pamela Anderson   Best?
  • You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
        Carmen Electra   Best?
  • I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
        Sandra Cisneros   Best?
  • From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
        R. D. Laing   Best?
  • You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
        Marie Curie   Best?
  • We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.
        Claude M. Bristol   Best?
  • It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
        Rebecca West   Best?
  • The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
        Allard Lowenstein   Best?
  • Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.
        Julie Morgenstern   Best?
  • The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.
        The Dalai Lama   Best?
  • I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
        Frank Tibolt   Best?
  • The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
        Peter Ustinov   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
        Mitch Albom   Best?
  • I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
        Neil Armstrong   Best?
  • The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
        Joanne Field   Best?
  • Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
        Bette Midler   Best?
  • What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
        Gloria Anzaldua   Best?
  • The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.
        Gail Godwin   Best?
  • There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
        Marina Arroyo   Best?
  • The way I look at it, it's not enough to be talented; you have to reach deep down within yourself and make that extra effort that will put you over the top.
        Niesha Butler   Best?
  • We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.
        Marilyn King   Best?
  • For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
        Marcus Tullius Cicero   Best?
  • The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
        Douglas Adams   Best?

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