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Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.”

Needs Profitable

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.”

Men Ends Use Pride Madness Dancing Dance Vanity Profitable Pious Depraved Inbreds Necessary Use

Author:William Prynne

“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.”

Giving Soul Whole Inspiration Faith Can Do Greater Duty Bears Holy Mass Glory Crosses Stronger Catholic Saint Devotion Your Soul Profitable Glory Of God

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Thinking World Should Mind Use Earth Values Heaven Easy Difficult Wealth Sun Air Sea Glory Fairs Environmental Pleasant Glorious Sensible Profitable Giver Delighted

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!”

“I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.”

Thinking Ideas Whole Company Corporate Make Sense Welfare Awards Cynical Profitable

Author:David F. Swensen

“I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.”

Firsts Jobs Lasts Company Cases Prove Als Supporter Profitable Gore Profitable Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.”

Basketball Defeat Boast Profitable Attainment Famous Basketball

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.”

Giving Heart Soul Advice Humility Infinite Simplicity Saint Guides Your Soul Obedience Display Confession Profitable Open Your Heart Recess Infinite Love

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.”

Soul Helping Christian Fall Sin Effects Divine Holy Approach Weakness Preserves Excess Communion Sacraments Profitable Admirable Love Respect Holy Communion

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.”

Men Philosophy Joy Perfect Pursuit Sublime Profitable

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Courage Failing Faults Patient Calm Peaceful Imperfection Be Patient Profitable Neighbour Impatient Corrections Peaceful Mind Disheartened

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.”

Humans Has Beens Nature Security Human Nature Quiet Ordinary Advantage Extraordinary Tranquility Profitable Obedient Brethren Ordinary And Extraordinary Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Robert Toombs

“I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).”

Men Christian Silence Wise Heard Quiet Speech Orthodox Preacher Profitable Orthodox Christian

Author:Saint Basil

“Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.”

People Ifs Needs Years Persons Lying Turns Pay Drink Taxes Profit Graves Enormous Profitable

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.”

Made Investment Profitable Liverpool

Author:Tom Hicks

“If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.”

Ifs Should Common Ought Authority Profitable Common Good

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Seems Left Common Pay Wings Workers Common Sense Corporations Giants Stamps Profitable Left Wing Food Stamps

Author:Nick Hanauer

“The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.”

Character Beautiful Virtue Worship Absolutes Infinite Finite Profitable Calculations Conditional

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.”

May Walks Practice Forever Rich Produce Habit Healthy Familiar Harvest Profitable Walks Of Life

Book:Letters and Addresses,

Source: Letters and Addresses,

“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

Wisdom Gratitude Revenge Expensive Thank You Profitable

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”

Profitable

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.”

Years Wells Important Light Past Levels Common Share Prove Standards Defined Reasonable Fifty Representatives Profitable Portfolios Past Experiences

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.”

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