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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ↗

— Plato

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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ↗

— William Shakespeare

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At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. ↗

— John Strachan

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable. ↗

— Terry Semel

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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. ↗

— Karl Rove

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Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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