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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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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

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• We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

  Wayne Visser

  Fashionable, Convenient, Sustainable Living

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• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  L. Neil Smith

  Race, Effort, Genocide

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". L. Neil Smith's remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

  Marissa Mayer

  Fundraising, Becoming, Company

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• Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith.

  Justus von Liebig

  Successful, Animal, Discovery

  Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.5

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• I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.

  G. H. Hardy

  Apology, Science, Needs

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• Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

  Ray Ozzie

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

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• My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again. .....The bottom line is that infectious diseases are least likely to affect (and to kill) those who have healthy immune systems. I no longer believe that vaccines have any role to play in the protection of the community or the individual. Vaccines may be profitable but, in my view, they are neither safe nor effective. I prefer to put my trust in building up my immune system.

  Vernon Coleman

  Believe, Views, Building Up

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• In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

  Vernon Coleman

  Powerful, Independent, Medicine

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• ... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

  Terence Tao

  Math, Often Is, Trying

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• The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product or service and an organization that can sustain it.

  Scott Bedbury

  Organization, Focus, Building

  Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (2003). “A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”, p.33, Penguin

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• The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Way, Solve

  "Why it isn't Necessary to 'Throw the Bums Out'". Milton Friedman's speech about changing Congress, www.youtube.com. circa 1977.

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• No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

  Eric Holder

  Law, Matter, Individual

  "Citigroup pays $7bn to settle sub-prime mortgage investigation" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2014.

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• A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

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• People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

  Carson McCullers

  Taken, Hands, People

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Inspirational, Women, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 22, 2015

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• Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

  Richard Quest

  May

  "CNN Business Traveller" with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2009.

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