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I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

Harrison Salisbury

Book, Writing, Effort

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If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.

Emile Durkheim

Order, Law, Class

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One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Dick Gephardt

Mistake, America, People

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There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being.

Henry Hazlitt

Peace, Men, Cities

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(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

Lucretius

Summer, Air, Hands

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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Walter Scott

Selfishness, World, Causes

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Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Sophie, Gigs, Entity

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I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

Bob Uecker

Shoes, Gloves, Stuff

Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.51, Triumph Books

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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

Bill Goldberg

Home, Half, Kind

"Goldberg wrestling for fun". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

Langdon Winner

Social, Term, Realms

Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

Seneca the Younger

Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Peace, War, Hate

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The only thing I took advantage of at Extreme Rules was an opportunity to cash in my Money in the Bank contract, which I did successfully, well within the rules. You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy.'

CM Punk

Opportunity, Wwe, Fans

"WWF SmackDown!". Sport, June 19, 2009.

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CeNation. Wwe reports that last night at approximatley 9pm est. It terminated its contract with cousin of john cena, juan. The wwe wishes juan the best of luck in his future endeavors.

John Cena

Cousin, Night, Wwe

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My name is Alex Riley and I've been signed to a personal services contract for The Miz.

Alex Riley

Wwe, Names, Alex

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R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

John Thomas Sladek

Blood, Law, Dozen

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If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Plutarch

Hate, Hatred, Mind

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You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Harry S. Truman

Pages, Judgment, Newspapers

Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Success, Men, House

Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.245

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The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

Molly Ivins

Powerful, People, Scary

Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

Rumi

Weather, Atmosphere, Matter

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All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Government, People, Independence

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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Seneca the Younger

Travel, Ties, Hospitality

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Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

Germaine Greer

Work, Play, Favors

Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.21, Harper Collins

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We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

Charles Peguy

Loss, People, Justice

"Men and Saints". Book by Charles Péguy, transl. by Anne and Julian Green, p. 11, 1944.

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