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“As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.”

Wish Pay Accepting Congress Profit Employment Ease Consideration Expenses Tempted

Book:Specimen pages of a proposed publication of the papers of Washington, Franklin, etc

Source: Specimen pages of a proposed publication of the papers of Washington, Franklin, etc

“Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.”

Ifs Might Form Wish Economic Capitalism Organization Structure Profit Pursuit Defined Motivated

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.”

Persons Found Wish Environment Produce Cost Waste Trade Average Profit Ministry Greedy Hazards Average Person Investigating Short Sighted

Book:The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl

“On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,'' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.”

Mean Bigs Wish Industry Majors Increase Profit Newspapers These Days Behalf English Major

Author:Dave Barry

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.”

People Knows Want Should Doe Stills Form Wish Sin Imagine Labor Shame Slavery Sells Slave Profit Exploits Unwilling Abolish

Author:Leo Tolstoy