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I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.


Danny DeVito


#because #clout #doing #doing the right thing #greed

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.


William Lyons


#cause #center #class #consensus #considered

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.


Amelia E. Barr


#despair #determination #failure #hindrances #life

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.


Brian Ferneyhough


#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.


Kerry Thornley


#chaos #form #imagine #merely #order

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.


Christopher Columbus


#chosen #destination #distractions #goal #his

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.


Bill Vaughan


#anything #conform #conformist #hates #nonconformist

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.


Jeremy Paxman


#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.


Plutarch


#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.


George Vancouver


#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued






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