Commerce Quotes - Page 4

• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Ideas, Age

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• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Stars, Ocean

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Expansion, Internet

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• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Honesty, War

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pregnancy, Society, Church

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• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Witty, Sex, Regret

  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 6 Oct 1980.

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• There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Education, Community, Marketing

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• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  Halle Berry

  Today, Industry

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• Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

  Brendan Fraser

  Atmosphere, Hot, Saigon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

  Robert Toombs

  Power, Different, Regulation

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

  Gregory Bateson

  Art, Sleep, Warfare

  "Mind and Nature, a necessary unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1988.

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• It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Facts, Protection, Said

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Turkeys, India

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Country, Practice, World

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• Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Competition, Atheism, Moral

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.96

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• It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

  Robert Patrick

  Cutting, Passionate, Littles

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• Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

  Bill Frist

  Travel, Stars, Adventure

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• Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

  John Dingell

  Thinking, Let It Go, Would Be

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• In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

  Les Brown

  Communication, People, Bait

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• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Workout, Children

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing

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• Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

  Kendrick Meek

  Jobs, Florida, Dollars

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• But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

  Jane Byrne

  Strong, Opportunity, Cities

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• 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.

  George Canning

  Offering, Littles, Dutch

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Freedom, Office, Progress

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

  Ruben Blades

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