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«To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.»
«What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?»
Author: Robert Fulghum | Keywords: gains, loses, profit
«When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.»
«We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.»
«When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift»
«War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: War | Keywords: massacre, profit
«Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.»

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