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“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“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

“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source: Left at the post

“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”

Ifs States Wisdom Form Politics United Half United States Economy Return Percent Income Liberalism Capitalist Household Consumption Annuals

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.”

Want Feels I Can Helping Team Return Capacity Seasons Nba Disappointed Want Me

Author:Allen Iverson

“If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Buddhism Return Negative Buddhist Enlightened Very Strong Etiquette Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.”

Stories Literature Views Cities Dying Return Paper Details Hong Kong Inner City

Author:Anthony Holden

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.”

Stories Sleep Atheism Return Rose Positive Atheism Prophet Revelations Comrade

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.”

Ifs Art Reason Seems Principles Atheism Return Ten Worship Beast Apes

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.”

May Doe Age Christian America Lost Atheism Return Deserve Positive Atheism Golden Golden Age

Author:Mark Noll

“And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.”

Men Want Atheism Return Deeds Paradise Old Man Assassins

Author:Marco Polo

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God.”

Ifs Thinking Way States Might Happens Hate Path Return Mountain I Hate Seeking Stores Polygamy Prosecutor Utah

Author:Tom Green

“I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary.”

Thinking Stills Causes Levels Plans Streets Return

Author:Meek Mill

“If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.”

Ifs Needs Looks Whole Happens Individual Community Animal Watches Return Rewards Sensitive Divided Consistently Arrangements Beneficial Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.”

Persons Asks Enjoy Forever Return Investors Typical Speculation Betting Portfolios Speculators Global Business

Author:John C. Bogle

“There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.”

Want Past Doors Return Our Past

Author:Mike Tyson

“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.”

Should Pain Lasts Return Add Loved Ones Hostage Ransom

Author:Mark Steyn

“What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.”

Needs Today Sound Mankind Return Liberation Reasoning Slogans Nonsensical

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.”

Beautiful Return Garden Notion Paradise

Book:Creating a Garden for the Senses

Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses

“The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.”

Spiritual Grows Natural Principles Fashion Emotional Return Plant Financial Seeds Someday Sowing

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.”

Ifs World Firsts Stills Soul Helping Strong Healing Hell Return Lucky Trapped Go To Hell

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.”

May Facts Known Sea Return Accounts Longing Contemplating Sail Restless Fascination Abiding

Author:J. D. McClatchy

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.”

Men Doe Christian Certain Culture Evil Term Moral Type Return Recovery Cures Savages Evil Man Degeneration

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.”

World Christ Situation Lord Fool Return Preacher Despised

Book:Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils

Source: Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils

“Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.”

Should Mind Self Behinds Wall Return Leaving Discrimination Contemplation Stable

Author:Bodhidharma

“The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.”

Soul Body Earth Air Return Mortals Tied Reincarnation Descending

Author:Philo

“Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'”

Made Problem Actors Return Taxes Occupation Stretching Schwarzenegger Tax Returns

Author:Jay Leno

“That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.”

Giving Sacrifice Return Without Hope Giving Everything

Author:Albert Camus

“To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?”

Sometimes Grows Hurt Return Smallness

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition

“On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.”

Levels Return Percent Absolutes Investing Average Assets Allocation Variability Asset Allocation

Author:Roger G. Ibbotson

“Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.”

“You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.”

Feels Mean Might Courses Party Careers Return Comfortable Trade Profit Expected Favors Odds Trading Being Positive

Author:Gary B Smith

“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.”

Process Forget Return Pure Findings Wander Rebellious Begin Again Blessedness Invocation

Book:My Emily Dickinson

Source: My Emily Dickinson

“When the brave men and women who serve our nation in uniform leave to deploy overseas, they dont just leave behind their family and friends, often times they leave behind jobs and livelihoods as well. After the sacrifices they have made, making sure that they have access to a good paying job to support their families when they return is the least we can do.”

Men Wells Made Jobs Nations Can Do Behinds Support Sacrifice Return Men And Women Brave Access Uniforms Family And Friends Livelihood Brave Man

Author:Tim Walz

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”

World May Doe Ideas Matter Enough Earth Beautiful Life Is Wish My Own Existence Return No Matter What Mere Surface Justify Gestures Fabric Sentimental

Author:Frank O'Hara

“I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.”

Firsts Home America Father Generations Return Passing Away Nigeria Ghana

Author:Uzo Aduba

“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”

People Way Trying Littles Problem Asks Wish Enjoy Pleasure Animal Company Kindness Like You Return Fit Comfort About Friendship Conditional

Author:Bill Watterson

“The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.”

Results Return Demand Generous Outcomes Philanthropy

Author:Andrew Forrest

“Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.”

Men Mind Ends Boys Mankind Military Return Intellectual Army Dresses Profession Faculty Sensible Superiority Lowest Misunderstood Drummer Institute Being Misunderstood

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.”

Men Passion He Man Return Conscious Vanity Her Beauty

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.”

Wells Self Lying Courses Stars Moral Sun Return Moon Seasons Difficulty Faults Self Knowledge Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]”

Thinking May Given Return Benefits Hatred Thanks Acceptable Receiver Posse

Author:Tacitus

“Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.”

Kindness Return

Author:Tacitus

“There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.”

Men World Way Firsts Lasts Three Practice Impossible Return Universal Revenge Endeavor Despise Censure Three Ways

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.”

Should May Church Sleep Issues Return Draws Madness Hats Someday Waking Crash Offense Signals Straws Velvet Helmet Lashes Flare Straw Hats

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance