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• I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

  Henry Hudson

  Travel, Adventure, Land

  "Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated".

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• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  Plato

  Truth, Honesty, Plato

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Passion, Creating

  "Oprah's Cut with Martha Stewart". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. August 15, 2000.

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• This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Charles Hodge (1856). “A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians”, p.360

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.

  Ian MacKaye

  Ideas, People, Bakeries

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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Lying, Purpose, Being Lied

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• They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.

  Wendell Berry

  Mother, Way, Mouths

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.228, Counterpoint Press

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• I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Feet, Trying, Buying

  "Mexico's 'mother of all oil and gas rushes' is about to get ugly" by Wolf Richter, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2015.

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• The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.

  Jonah Peretti

  People, Needs, News

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• The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Government, Agriculture

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.61, Best Books on

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Hate, Passion

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• ...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but, you know, what we're - what I get my - what I'm proud about doing is creating companies which we're really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they'll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Business, Creating

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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• When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

  Charles Warren Stoddard

  Life Is, Chiefs, Duty

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

  Trey Parker

  Important, Sometimes, Prehistoric Man

  "Fictional character: Government Agent #2". TV Series "South Park" ("Prehistoric Ice Man", 1999), www.imdb.com. (1997 - ).

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• I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

  John Green

  Crazy, Book, Independent

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• In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Writing, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.131, Routledge

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• Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hurt, Vanity, Self

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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Literature, Righteous, Courses

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• Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Children, Order

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• To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

  James Risen

  War, America, Incentives

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, People, Tolerance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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