Bargains Quotes - Page 6

• The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Party, Men, Ideas

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• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

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• All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Mean, Hype, Parent

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial

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• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Suicide, Blessed, Ocean

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• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

  Owen D. Young

  Achievement, Wages, Salvation

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• Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor.....Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Struggle, Heart

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• To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

  Marion Woodman

  Agreement, Contracts, Love Unconditionally

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1997.

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• It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Doe, Culture

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• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  William Vickrey

  Years, Would Be, Unemployment

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Country, Developing Countries

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.118, Baker Books

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• The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Neutrality, Host, Belgium

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• For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.

  Denzel Washington

  Blessed, Giving, Influence

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• My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.

  Shelby Steele

  Challenges, Would Be, Tennessee

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pay, Sin, Worth It

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven: But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.145, Ignatius Press

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• It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Cost, Incentives

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• Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

  Eli Pariser

  Hands, Data, Might

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.19, Penguin

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Thinking, Worry

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• The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.

  Horatius Bonar

  Heart, Our World, Humanity

  Horatius Bonar (2018). “God's Way of Holiness”, p.36, Bible Study Books

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• You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.

  Peter Cundill

  Hate, Keys, Having Patience

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

  Charlie Munger

  Why Me, Asks

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• True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Giving, Way, Traffic

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Two, Want Something, Wellness

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• [Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Naked

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