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«If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.»
Author: Brian Philcox
| About:
Advertising,
Commerce,
Economics
| Keywords:
advertisers, benevolent, commerce, drivers, engine, richer, spark, The Advertiser, The Spark, track
«Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
avoidable, benevolent, dictatorship, initiative, in the main, modest, philosophers, public policy, realistic, recognized, replace
«Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.»
«I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator»
Author: Richard Branson
| Keywords:
benevolent, dictator, dictatorship, dictatorships, provided, The Dictators
«He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
benevolent, duck, held, merciful, mistaken, rain, shower, showered, showering, umbrella, umbrellas
«A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
benevolent, countenance
«Now, the Merciful Lord has issued His Command. Let no one chase after and attack anyone else. Let all abide in peace, under this Benevolent Rule.»
«It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to»
«But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Cute friendship,
Friendship
| Keywords:
arrangement, benevolent, shade, The Arrangement
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolent, exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, examination, excessive, flame, illuminate, illuminated, required, resort, resort to, searching, studied, The Flame, The Force
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