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Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

David Ogilvy

Failure, Eight, Cereal

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual, Fear, Real

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Leo Tolstoy

Freedom, Essence, Slavery

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Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

Pope Pius XII

Religious, Determination, Freedom

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If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future ... for America is the product of our freedoms.

Edward Francis Hutton

Freedom, Mean, America

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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Men, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.380, Penguin

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Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

George Bernard Shaw

Health, Mind, Sound Body

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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

Thomas A. Edison

Mother, Health, Men

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For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Thomas Carlyle

History

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Paul Valery

History, Example, Chemistry

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History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.

Charles Augustus Briggs

History, Facts, Divine

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Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

David Ogilvy

Humor, Deep Thought, Marketing

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To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Richard Leakey

Arrogance, Intelligence, Would Be

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In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

Rajneesh

Jealousy, Men, Ego

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Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

Jealousy, Mean, Joy

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Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

Rajneesh

Beautiful, Jealousy, Personality

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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Thomas Carlyle

Passion, Knowledge, Experience

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.

Barry Long

Life, Past, Love Is

"Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Poetry, Language

Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Feet, Poetry

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Design, Events

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Jacob Bronowski

Power, Understanding

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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

Truth, Writing, Thinking

"Do EL Doctorow's novels tinker too much with the truth?" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Happiness, Failing, Ends

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