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• The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

  Ravida Din

  Trying, Groups, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Baseball, Team, Eight

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• We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

  Wayne Visser

  Fashionable, Convenient, Sustainable Living

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• In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Spiritual, Prayer, War

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.” “He isn’t husband material.” “What I have described is perfect husband material.” said her grandmother. “I don’t want a husband.” “Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.

  Loretta Chase

  Strong, Powerful, Husband

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• Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

  Paul Hawken

  Aberration, Development, Humans

  Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (1999). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.5, Earthscan

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• It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4177, Delphi Classics

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• Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Men, Skills

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sleep, Loss, Suffering

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Friendly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

  Robert Bolt

  Hero, Humility, Angel

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

  Frank Zappa

  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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• In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

  Al Gore

  Time, Creativity, Creative

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Together

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.192, Random House

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• And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Simple, Sheep, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

  Reid Hoffman

  Gone, Infinite, Turns

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Oil, Messages

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

  Raymond Loewy

  Fun, Airplane, Science

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• Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Anxiety, Age, Care

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Conclusion, p. 543, 1970.

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• A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

  James C. Collins

  Change, Vision, Balance

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• I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Done, Saws

  "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, (Ch. 86), c. 1393.

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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