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Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.”

Art Wonder Pieces Cease Commerce

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”

Littles Matter Too Much Equal Advantage Twenties Asking Faults Bottom Offering Cents Commerce Dutch Asking Too Much

Author:George Canning

“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”

Way Should Study Prove Painter Academic Commerce

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.”

“(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.”

People Liberty Entertainment Amor Astronomy Nine Voting Concerts Commerce Muse Publicity Hygiene Painless

Book:Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.”

Ifs Thinking War Use Government Might Winning Powerful Military Stronger Institutions Everyday Library Committed Bunch Mess Upset Commerce Everyday Life Librarian Treasured

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.”

Men World Mind May Art Hands Faces Faith Industry Glory Standing Aim Commerce Agriculture Employed Art And Science

Author:Abraham Kuyper

“I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.”

People Thinking Important Bigs Business Mistake Technology Groups Style Internet Civilization Right Now Errors Introducing Commerce Bricks Obsolete Retail E Commerce

Author:Carlos Slim

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”

Freedom Progress Depends Office Spread Labour Commerce Cabinets Maintenance Diffusion

Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

“I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.”

“A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.”

Focus Intellect Newspapers Experiments Magazines Shops Commerce Ratios

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.”

Four Trade Intelligence Intellect Neighbor Links Shore Quarters Commerce Globes Merchants Dealer Retail E Commerce

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.”

“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”

Knows Feels Country Spirit Passion Business Principles Acceptance Gains Selfish Commerce

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.”

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

Love Real Friendship Friends Slave Tyrants Commerce Real Friends Intercourse Stoops Disinterested Lasting Friendship Disinterest Disinterested Love

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

“The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.”

“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

Men Stories Business Quality Heard Patience Grants Commerce Request

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.”

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”

Individual Left Liberty Four Prosperity Enterprise Commerce Agriculture Pillars Free Enterprise Navigation

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”