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«History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
come in, compel, conflict, conflict of interest, divest, divested, economics, ethics, interests, sufficient, vest, vested, vested interest, vests, willingly
«One cannot help but be aware of the great scurrying to borrow, spend, invest, divest or just flat out hide things in the next three months before the wisdom of Congress falls upon us.»
Author: George Vecsey
| Keywords:
divest, divested, fall flat, flat out, scurry, scurrying, the US Congress
«Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
| About:
Books,
Death and dying,
Spirit,
Words
| Keywords:
divest, divested, kindled
«It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
divest, divested, rank, relative, retain
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Desire,
Fear
| Keywords:
affliction, crutch, crutches, desirable, divest, divested, frightening, released
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Action,
Change
| Keywords:
Action The, arraying, divest, divested, Negro, non violent, passivity, replace, supplement, supplements, vindictive
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