Plato
Philosopher
"Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value."
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'"
Lewis Hyde
Author
"True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers."
William Samuel Johnson
Politician, Lawyer
"Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite."
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"The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue."
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"Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything."
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"That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality."
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"If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it."
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"This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that."
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"God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only."
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"The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers."
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"If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker."
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"I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader."
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"Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made."
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"writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed."
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"Sociological critics are waste makers."
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"There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong."
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"I think that music makers just really bless the planet."
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"There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least."
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"The audience is making the film and not the film-maker."
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"All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit."
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"What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe."
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"The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it."
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"Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny."
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