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• If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sports, Party, Blessing

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• Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, School

  "Mother’s Day Mission: Help Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

  James Heckman

  Jobs, Doors, Self

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• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Meditation, Fruit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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• We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Shade, Hours, Ill

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.147

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Civilization, Luxury, Selfishness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Evil, Design, Innocent

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• Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

  Emma Goldman

  Elements, Revenue, Militarism

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (1917). “Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917”

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, People, Progress

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• It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Law, Class

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• I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.

  Christopher Noxon

  Jealous, Numbers, People

  "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

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• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Responsibility, Vision

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

  Marilyn French

  Race, Energy, Habit

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

  Myrtle Reed

  Omission, Sin

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.91, tredition

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• Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Essence, May, Way

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• owning capital is not a productive activity.

  Joan Robinson

  Money, Economics, Activity

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.18, Springer

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• Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Stress, Organization, Creative

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• You have to be very productive in order to become excellent.  You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period.  It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period.  But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Writing, Order

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• The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

  Greg Gutfeld

  World, Population, Generations

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

  Dave Barry

  Meaningful, Jobs, Real

  "The Phil Factor Interview with Dave Barry! (yes, that Dave Barry)". thephilfactor.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

  David Lilienthal

  Country, Children, Men

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• Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Jobs, Training, Employee

  "NACE International". Materials Performance, 1990.

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