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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
Occupation
Labor
Either
Lending
Taxation
Land
Fortunes
Large
Founded
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
Lisa Gansky
History
Business
Made
Power
First
Building
Nation
Aggressive
Minds
Some
Share
Hotels
Hilton
Cleverest
Understood
Brand
Titans
Created
Premier
Fortunes
Who
International
Platforms
Railroads
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott
Work
Women
People
World
Money
Men
Style
Nowadays
Unjust
Marry
Left
Them
Fortunes
For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
Lucy Powell
Success
Morning
You
Emotions
Political
Election
Party
Own
Believe
Otherwise
Immediate
Culmination
Mix
Campaigning
Efforts
Personal
Any
Candidates
After
Us
Stand
Your
Fortunes
Activists
Recent
Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.
Marc Ostrofsky
Business
World
Internet
Made
Physical
Online
Through
Generations
Over
Were
Been
Selling
Stores
Fortunes
Products
Business World
Many
Buying
Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?
Matt Bevin
Generation
Honor
Made
Giving
First
Own
Think
Others
Benefit
Our
Our Generation
Some
Be The First
Sacred
Sacrifices
First Generation
Without
Equivalent
Going
Modern-Day
Fortunes
Who
Lives
Even as evidence mounts that immigration is bolstering the British economy, the political consensus seems to be that bashing immigration boosts electoral fortunes.
Mehdi Hasan
Immigration
Political
Evidence
Boost
Seems
Economy
Electoral
Fortunes
Even
Consensus
British
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Today
Generation
Wealth
Made
Single
Society
Anew
Lifetime
Disappear
Takes
Over
His
Person
Duration
Essence
Just
Create
Next
Next Generation
Fortunes
Her
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
Pete Hamill
Women
Feeling
Country
Politicians
Else
Football
Football Players
Disasters
Perhaps
Another
Diamonds
Texas
Than
Where
Bigger
Place
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Skies
Really
Fortunes
Growing
Players
Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded like... the Internet today. There was crazy competition and upheaval; there were constant arguments about new techniques, new materials, new machines; and, of course, there were fortunes to be made.
Robin Sloan
Today
Crazy
History
Competition
Internet
Made
Argument
Research
Bit
Machines
Constant
About
More
New
Like
Read
Course
Printing
Doing
Materials
Were
Upheaval
Did
Quite
Quite A Bit
Fortunes
Techniques
Early
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
Thomas Frank
Disappointment
Matter
Will
Men
Poet
Power
Consideration
Plumber
Some
Only
Various
Parties
Always
Issue
Subject
Version
Left
Effects
Whether
Which
Turn
Forthright
Aspects
Fortunes
Right
Two
The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
Tom Hodgkinson
Money
Simple
Made
Free
Laziness
Down
Active
Out
Charge
Rarely
Simple Reason
Lifestyle
Lifestyles
Pushed
No-One
Fees
Make
Option
Going
Fortunes
Reason
Sleep
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
William Graham Sumner
Regretted
Fortunes
Large
Thing
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton
Long
Our
Our Lives
Liberties
Insecure
Self-Government
Demonstrate
Mexicans
Proceed
Them
Incapable
Fortunes
Connected
Wholly
Now
Lives
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
Future
Immediately
Most
Practical
Question
Intensely
Nations
Whether
Land
Mankind
Sea
Fortunes
Connected
The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.
Ben Sasse
Government
People
Liberty
Honor
Independence
Free
Big
Few
Our
Project
Saw
Pledge
Secure
Parent
Free People
Could
Federal
Sacred
Federal Government
Shared
Well
Doing
Did
Big Things
Declaration
Them
Helicopter
Fortunes
Play
Things
If corporations and rich people who made fortunes out of us during the boom are not paying their fair share then reform the tax system and close down the tax havens.
John McDonnell
People
Made
Rich
Down
Corporations
Boom
System
Out
Haven
Share
Fair
Fair Share
Close
Reform
Tax
Tax System
Rich People
Then
Us
Paying
Fortunes
Who
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You
Address
Give
He
Him
Mastery
Boy
Accomplishments
Goes
Where
Fortunes
Palaces
Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets.
Akshaye Khanna
Finance
World
Markets
Directly
Industry
Hindi
Fortunes
Connected
Film
I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign me.
Willian
Me
First
Sign
Eye
Tried
Chelsea
After
Fortunes
Kept
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