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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.


William Samuel Johnson
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
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Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.
Jared Polis
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In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.


Alan Kulwicki
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.


Napoleon Hill
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'Tis folly to be wise.


Thomas Gray
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.


Robert South
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.


Tom Robbins
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I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.
Luke Benward
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.


William Blake
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.


Derek Jarman
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Jonathan Demme
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.


William Blake
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.


Samuel Johnson
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.


Shirley Chisholm
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.


Richard Whately
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