Mercenary Quotes - Page 4

• These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

  A. E. Housman

  Fall, August, Heaven

  1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Sea, Rivers

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• The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

  Azar Nafisi

  Attitude, Passion, Land

  Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Courage, Government, Able

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fall, Freedom Of Speech, Together

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fall, Government, Hands

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