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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Sophocles

Sound, Speech, Ill

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Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

Alphonsus Rodriguez

Beautiful, Opportunity, Attachment

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It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

Ina May Gaskin

Nice, Scare, Easy

FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from May 04, 2014

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Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

Seth Godin

Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

"Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

Wendell Berry

Broken, Ordinary, Connections

"The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

Arundhati Roy

Business, Choices, Alternatives

Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin”, D C Books

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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

George Washington

Morning, Healthy, May

George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

John Calvin

School, Blessing, Way

John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

Tony Visconti

Responsibility, Giving, Culture

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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Seth Godin

Running, Long, Important

"Thinking about money". sethgodin.typepad.com. June 30, 2013.

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A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Seth Godin

Jobs, Heart, Artist

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In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

Lionel Blue

Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

Anthony the Great

Christian, Intelligent, Men

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...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

Gregory Palamas

Wise, Christian, Order

Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

John Flavel

Christian, Thinking, Lovely

John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

Desson Thomson

Hollywood, Flattery, Imitation

"'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.

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Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

Darrin Patrick

Discipline, Enjoyable

Darrin Patrick (2014). “The Dude's Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

Henrik Fisker

Art, Design, Branding

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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

Edward Bernays

Order, Waiting, Demand

Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

Charles Darwin

Struggle, Variation, Owing

On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

Charles Darwin

Strong, Struggle, Principles

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

Howard W. Hunter

Blessing, Benefits, Scripture

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Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

Aaron Feuerstein

Long, Climate, Environment

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Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Paul Samuelson

Railroads, Stories, Internet

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Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Henry Ford

Hard Work, Past, Management

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