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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

Friendship, Business

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Life, Great, Wisdom

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

Good, Country, Public

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust

Great, Alone, Everything

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
Brad Pitt

Thinking, Country, America

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Injustice, Kingdom, Lasts

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Government, Human, Act

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey

Success, Else, Nation

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

Work, Character, Feeling

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Small

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

America, Pleased

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Rock, Country, Hell

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Peace, Woman, America

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Power, Patriotism, Suffering

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke

Limits, Riches, Principal

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
David E. Price

Live, Justice, Help

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter

America, Avoid, Land

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

Either, Labor, Land

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey

Men, Wise, Enough

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller

Life, Nothing, Learn

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal

Fear, Few, Religions

No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Career, Public, Decent

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

True, Culture, System

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere

Nothing, Everyone, High

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu

Angry, Revenge, Before

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil

Work, True, Greatness

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Charles Stanley

Hope, Human, Philosophy

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew Jackson

Great, Government, Fear

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher Hitchens

Work, Amazing, America

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade

Life, Strength, Revenge

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