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“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.”

People Leadership Greater Return Favors Mediums Acknowledge Ingratitude

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.”

Men Should Made Matter Past Law Natural Greater Creation Return Eternal All Things Claims Rhythm Decline Stem Empowered Natural Law

Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

“The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.”

Matter Courses Party Greater Return One Day Germany Socialist Inclination Austria Socialist Party

Author:Arthur Seyss-Inquart

“The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.”

Greater Information Willing Return Down And Willingness Just Being Scarce

Author:Tyler Cowen

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.”

Ifs Men Sex Behinds Break Greater He Man Return Ease Desperate Barriers Length Pale Decency Break Through Propriety

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.”

Care Greater Return Originals Quotations No One Cares

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.”

Mind May Opportunity Greater Century Possibility Return Bears Twentieth Century Regimentation

Author:Margaret Mead

“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

May Play Order Greater Return Labor Zest

Author:Plato

“It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.”

Wells Seems Moving Numbers Company Greater Return Picks Investment Investing Average Lists Logical Small Numbers Above Average

Book:The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

Source: The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

“The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.”

Knows Mean Winning Greater Groups Return Investing Active Investors Passive Percentages Brethren

Author:Warren Buffett

“No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.”

People Dream Economy Greater Development Return Benefits Concerned China Republic Tibetan Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.”

Littles Earth Greater Air Feet Return Pressure Smell Atmosphere Salt Parachutes

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.”

Men House Principles Greater Honest Return Exercise Glory Training Trade Killing Shoes Our Time Guarantees Justify Clothings Patriot Equipment Murderer Wholesale Anti Patriotism

Book:Living My Life

Source: Living My Life

“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.”