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He has committed the crime who profits by it.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#crime #profits #who

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.


Ezra Stiles


#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.


Ted Strickland


#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.


Maurice Strong


#damaging #dupont #environmentally #even #grand

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.


Johannes Tauler


#cannot #day #even #good #good people

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'


Chelsea Clinton


#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.


Naomi Klein


#war #capitalism

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.


Adam Smith


#class-warfare #economics #labor #money #profit

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.


Mitchell Baker


#independent #mozilla #nonprofit #organization

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.


Abu Bakr


#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier