Prosperous Quotes - Page 15

• Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

  Thomas Malthus

  Adversity, Class, Realizing

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 437, 1836.

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• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

  Democritus

  Education, Ornaments, Unfortunate

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Men, Okonkwo

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.37, Heinemann

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• God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.

  Francis Quarles

  God, Morning, Night

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.59

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• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  Natan Sharansky

  Powerful, Leader, Support

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• On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Dark, Past, Race

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Long, Effort

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• When you FEEL healthy and vital and alive and prosperous... you attract more of all those things.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Healthy, Alive

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.124, Hay House, Inc

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• The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
  energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Safe, Passionate

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• Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Loss, Past, Years

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.1, Fig

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• We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.

  Edward Hirsch

  School, Society, Able

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Conformity

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

  George William Curtis

  Strong, World, Made

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Potiphar papers”, p.211

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• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  Lee Iacocca

  Dream, Nice, Prosperous Future

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• My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Race, Blood

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• The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

  Herman Wouk

  Children, America, People

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

  Luis Fortuno

  Country, Fighting, Generations

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• The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Believe, Science

  1985 Other People's Trades,'News from the Sky' (translated by Raymond Rosenthal,1989).

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• China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

  Jung Chang

  People, Scar, Not Happy

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• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, America, Peaceful

  www.nbcnews.com. January 16, 2007.

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• I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Years, Two

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• America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.

  Judd Gregg

  Country, Children, Government

  "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2010.

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