Schemes Quotes - Page 13

• Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

  Vito Acconci

  Hands, Space, Decision

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

  Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  Criminals, Disappear, Policemen

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• No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

  E. W. Howe

  Pay, Wells

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• Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished..... Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. "Mind your own business" is its own moral law. Interference with another's business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Law, Mind Your Own Business

  "State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ" by Benjamin R. Tucker, praxeology.net. March 10, 1888.

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• some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, What Matters, Color

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• You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?

  Randy Gage

  Believe, Opportunity, Pyramids

  Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.94, Internet Profit Kit

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• It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Winning, Trying, Failing

  "‘When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead’: Lessons From The Stock Market Collapse" by Jerry Weintraub, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Important, Get Better

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.

  Mary Schapiro

  Opportunity, Balance, Target

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• I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

  Alan Bean

  Color, Feels Right, Feels

  "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. October 05, 1998.

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• I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

  Laurel Lea

  Heaven, Ruins, Planning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Running, People, Purpose

  "Meet the man behind the Ponzi scheme". Interview with Randy Dotinga, www.csmonitor.com. September 9, 2011.

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• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Fire, Personality, Style

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Gold, Wealth

  "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan, www.constitution.org. 1966.

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• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  Eamon de Valera

  Years, Bigs, Shannon

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• When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Running, Men, Years

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• We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

  Stanislav Grof

  Mean, Thinking, Dimensions

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• I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

  Vito Acconci

  Trying, Pieces, Volition

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

  C.P. Snow

  Fall, Eye, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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• I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.

  Mr. Lee

  Reality, Long, People

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Labels, Brewing

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• Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Sake, Bones

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• Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.

  Anthony Heald

  Jobs, Artist, Yarn

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

  William Godwin

  Country, Ninety Nine, Atheism

  William Godwin (1890). “Godwin's "Political Justice.": A Reprint of the Essay on "Property," from the Original Edition”

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