#pros

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #capitalist #due #great #industrious

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#accepted #basically #catch #caught #countries

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#black #black and white #conditions #equals #live

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#after #beautiful #daughters #far #habits

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#many #prose #today #verses

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#human #increasing #longer #more #poverty

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

#fortunes #man #men #prosper #same

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. ↗

— George Ball

#contribute #goes #israel #longer #prosperity