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• Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

  Albert Einstein

  Bankers, Debt, Invention

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• Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Effort

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.262, Thomas Nelson

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• The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

  Antony Beevor

  War, Stupid, D Day

  "Antony Beevor says D-Day bombing 'close to a war crime'" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

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• I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

  Mike Lowry

  Thinking, World, Investment

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• A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the reader through Welty's long, productive writing career and introduces her family and friends along the way. The book's very readable text, its lovely use of Welty quotes, and its excellent photographs make the work a treasure. This intimate look at Eudora Welty is a welcome addition for her readers.

  William R. Ferris

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

  Shawn Achor

  Successful, Opportunity, Glasses

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.104, Random House

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• So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits - I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Cutting, Self, People

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• You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Stress, Exercise

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• The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science.

  J. V. Cunningham

  Thinking, Example, Plot

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• In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

  John M. Gottman

  Giving Up, Order, Needs

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• If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

  Gregor Strasser

  World, Wealth, Economic

  "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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• I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Feminist, Sides

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

  William Watson Purkey

  School, Achievement, Attendance

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• If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Survival, Tasks

  "Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1992.

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• The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Employee

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• In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Control Of Your Life, Order, Purpose

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

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• Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Men, Personality

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.191, Routledge

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• The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

  Markus Ruhl

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Simple

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• Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

  Christine Quinn

  Tired, Time Keeping, Schedules

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• The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Butterfly, Eight, Years

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• Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Mean, Caring

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• Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Eye, Dark

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• Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

  James Stockdale

  Journey, Talking, Issues

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