Prosperous Quotes - Page 6

• There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.

  Judd Gregg

  People, Wish, Culture

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• Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.

  Stanley Ho

  People, Chinese, Needs

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• Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, People, Political

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.2, City Lights Books

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• I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

  Greg Walden

  Technology, Oil, America

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• I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To me, you need to have money to pay your bills. I think God wants us to send our kids to college. I think he wants us to be a blessing to other people. But I don't think I'd say God wants us to be rich. It's all relative, isn't it?

  Joel Osteen

  Kids, Blessing, College

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• Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Prosperous Future, Self

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• People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Successful, Voice

  "GROVER NORQUIST: Immigration Reform Is A No-Brainer For The Economy". www.businessinsider.com. April 25, 2013.

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• By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Effort, Comfort, Population

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• I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Thinking, Austerity

  "'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mother, Son, Men

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.

  Henry Clay

  Powerful, Together, Use

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.51

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• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  Jack Layton

  Senior, Country, Children

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Favors

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Creativity, Creative, Our Society

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• At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

  James Monroe

  Country, Political, Progress

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

  Dennis Weaver

  Kids, Creative, Healthy

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• The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Struggle, Effort, Energy

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…”, p.132, e-artnow

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• Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Blessed, Healthy

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• Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

  Ben Cohen

  Powerful, Business, Practice

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• PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Learning, Feelings

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

  Eric Butterworth

  Giving, Giver, Committed

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• You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Taught Us, Careers, People

  Kofi Annan's remarks to Bono, November 1999.

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• Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Labor, Capitalist, Dues

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

  Gregory Benford

  Taste, England

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.134, Spectra

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