Goods Quotes - Page 18

• Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Character, Power

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• There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Mean, Government

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• There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

  Edward Coke

  Jewels, Law, Land

  Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Flow, Virtue

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

  John Templeton

  Blessing, Helping Others, People

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• I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

  Jim Kaat

  Yankees, Survivor, Classroom

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• Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

  George Meredith

  Prayer, Passion, Soul

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.

  Rachel Kushner

  Inspiration, Believe, Writing

  "Rachel Kushner: The Useless Truth". Interview with Jonathan Lee, www.guernicamag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Greedy, Masters

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• Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

  Terence Conran

  People, Needs, These Days

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• I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

  Eric Burdon

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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• Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

  William Weld

  Ideas, People, Flow

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• Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Government, Long

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• Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

  Conrad Burns

  People, Montana, States

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• The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

  Georgina Chapman

  Beautiful, Strong, People

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• Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

  Thomas Clarkson

  Men, Land, House

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press

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• Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

  Diana DeGette

  Responsibility, Decision, Delay

  "What’s Needed to Protect Our Nation’s Food Supply" by Rep. Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2009.

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• If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

  David Graeber

  Country, Powerful, Military

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• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  Andre Balazs

  Fashion, Reality, Thinking

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• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Style, Degrees

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Thinking, Demand

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

  Peter Garrett

  Play, People, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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