Distribution Quotes

• What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

  Henry George

  Civilization, Distribution Of Wealth, Prosperity

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Party, Commodity

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.384

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• Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

  Thomas Sowell

  Philosophy, Political, Income Distribution

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• I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wise, Design, Catholic

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution.

  Chris Penn

  Marketing, Next, Evolution

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• Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Body

  Max Planck (1915). “Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Degenerates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

  Gregor Strasser

  World, Wealth, Economic

  "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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• A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Creation, Company, Products

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• Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

  James F. Byrnes

  Allies, Germany, Assets

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• The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Laughing, World, Matter

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• Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Past, Problem

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• The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

  James Rainwater

  Research, Neutrons, Nucleus

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• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

  Patrick MacGill

  Party, Provision, Sympathetic

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

  Steve Case

  Games, Video, Machines

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• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Years, Drug, Colombia

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• Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

  Rudy Rucker

  Book, Fall, Rude

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Etc, Nra

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• I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

  Albert Wynn

  Strength, Strong, Government

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• We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

  Herb Kohl

  Children, Games, Negative

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• I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

  Greg Ginn

  Design, Building, Made

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• We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Italian, Offering, Shopping

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• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Decision, Receiving

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• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Two, Office

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.279

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