Contracts Quotes - Page 29

• I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, People, Challenges

  "James Cameron touts vegan diet during Nat Geo gala" by Michael d'Estries, www.mnn.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

  Studs Terkel

  May, Easy, Harsh

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• The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

  Hannah

  Law, Land, America

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• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Trust, Character

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• The contract stuff just happens to be a coincidence to me. I always play every game as if my back is against the wall. That's always something that has been good to me since high school. A lot of people believe the grass is greener on the other side, but I'm not one of those people. It wouldn't be my choice to leave, but the Seahawks know that.

  Shaun Alexander

  Wall, Believe, School

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• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

  Steven Amsterdam

  Book, Writing, Nursing

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Writing, Engineering, Bridges

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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• We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Empathy, Needs

  "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

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• It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

  Robert South

  Imagination, Fancy, Judgment

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.319

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• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  Ozzie Smith

  Player, Thinking, Umpires

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• Thus, from the first divine contract, and the pure region where truth abides, a continuous chain of mercies and light extends to humanity, through every epoch, and will be prolonged to the end of time, until it returns to the abode from which it descends, taking with it all the peaceful souls it shall have collected in its course; that we may know that it was Love which opened, directed and closed the circle of all things.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Light, Circles, Soul

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• I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

  Jenson Button

  Mistake, Made, Spending

  "Jenson Button drinks in memories before joining F1's 200 club" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

  Kurt Busch

  Organization, Leaving, Easy

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• I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

  Julian Cope

  Thinking, Way Forward, Ideas

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• The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Debt, Way

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.282, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

  John Pugsley

  Jobs, Government, Citizens

  John Pugsley (2007). “The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual”, p.204, The Sovereign Society

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• For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, People, Momentum

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  Rachel Holmes

  Zero, Men, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• God helps those who have no-cut contracts.

  Aesop Rock

  Cutting, Helping, God Help

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• In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mean, Principles, May

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• In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Facts, Social

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Law, People

  "15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist". Interview with Rebecca F. Elliott, www.thecrimson.com. November 18, 2010.

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• At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Debt, World

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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