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• A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Design, Appearance, Distrust

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, May, Enthusiasm

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• I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Feet

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.368, Best Books on

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• We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Water, Population

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.360, Best Books on

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• There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Advantage, Unlucky

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• Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Assessment, Decision, Hazards

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

  Andre Gide

  Needs, Prudence

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Errors, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Abandonment

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• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

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• A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Tape, Investing, Opinion

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• I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.

  Julie Klassen

  Mother, Clever, Believe

  Julie Klassen (2010). “The Silent Governess”, p.406, Bethany House

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• Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Men, Peaceful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.243, Tyché

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• While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

  Steven Chu

  Running, Risk, Climate

  Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013.

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• We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

  Jose Mujica

  Country, Powerful, Moving

  "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2013.

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• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Light, Enemy

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• Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Spiritual, Sweet

  Herman Melville (1995). “Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stress, Justice Of God

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• "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Chloe, Want

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.240

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• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  Periander

  Depression, Good Life, Adversity

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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