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| Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. |
| by Ovid |
| We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. |
| by Wendell Phillips |
| Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself. |
| by Erich Fromm |
| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. |
| by James Oppenheim |
| He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. |
| by Baruch Spinoza |
| No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. |
| by Confucius |
| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. |
| by Marcus Aurelius |
| Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. |
| by David Hume |
| There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions. |
| by David Hume |
| In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top. |
| by Alice Foote MacDougall |
| There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. |
| by Jean Paul Richter |
| Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. |
| by Roger Babson |
| How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. |
| by Sir Walter Scott |
| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. |
| by Sivananda |
| For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow. |
| by Edmund Spenser |
| To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. |
| by Murray Bookchin |
| Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
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