William Wilberforce Quotes
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
Quotes to Explore
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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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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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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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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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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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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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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
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Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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I want Americans to know that Guantánamo happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
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But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
