William Petty Quotes
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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It's about listening first, then selling.
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Faith is an active creative force.
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Quarrelling could do more damage to the appearance of a house than a party for fifty people, all drunk.
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.
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I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.
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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
