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QUOTES including the word: "fit"

John Milton:
  • Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

    • Thales:
  • Safe is the land, insecure the sea, greedy the profit

    • Plutarch:
  • Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

    • Jesus:
  • For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

    • Amílcar Cabral:
  • Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

    • George Orwell:
  • War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

    • Talleyrand:
  • Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

    • Jose Martí:
  • We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • He only profits from praise who values criticism.

    • Skinner:
  • The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

    • John Milton:
  • for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men.

    • Carl Jung:
  • The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.