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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. -- Demosthenes
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. -- Wilfred Burchett
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. -- Karen Russell
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -- Immanuel Kant
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. -- Chanakya
Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations. -- Michael Bergdahl
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. -- Fiona Shaw
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. -- Brandon Sanderson
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. -- Octavio Paz
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. -- William Hague
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always. -- J. I. Packer
While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. -- Robert Kiyosaki
He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines. -- David Josiah Brewer
I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business. -- Joan Rivers
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge
Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are. -- Andrew Gotianun
The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions. -- Brendan I. Koerner
It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart. -- Octavius Winslow
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet? -- Steven Pinker
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. -- Frans de Waal
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time; conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. -- W. H. Auden
I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people. -- Sebastian Faulks
I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. -- Joe Namath
The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman. -- Marvin J. Ashton
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason. -- Benjamin Franklin
Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace. -- Oswald Chambers
My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else. -- Frans Lanting
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. -- Quentin Crisp
The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts. -- Nathaniel Branden
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice. -- Pauline Collins
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. -- Rick Santorum
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
We don't have dealings. He just stalks me. I'm popular like that. -- Nenia Campbell
Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations. -- Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. -- William Cowper
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's. -- George Horace Lorimer
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other -- Ammianus Marcellinus
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. -- Plato
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. -- Chanakya
May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding. -- Ogwo David Emenike
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements. -- Condoleezza Rice
I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers. -- Jennifer Phang
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. -- Hannah Arendt
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago -- William J. Clinton
Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are. -- Mother Teresa
Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking. -- Kim R. Shaffer
Hillary Clinton has jeopardized. Totally jeopardized national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings. -- Donald Trump
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings? -- Carl Jung
If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. -- Frank Perdue
The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists. -- Dennis Miller
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral. -- Confucius
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions. -- Sheldon Richman
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it. -- Benjamin Franklin
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? -- Jane Austen
Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin. -- Tim Kaine
Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life. -- Baba Hari Dass
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand. -- George Eliot
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates against no race, religion, or gender. -- Mark Levin
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His. -- Catherine Marshall
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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life. -- Hosea Ballou
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . -- Karl Marx
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But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death. -- Ellen G. White
I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson. -- Rich Lowry
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech. -- Ian Kershaw
Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings. -- Stephen Covey
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27). -- Albert C. Barnes
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it. -- Don King
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves. -- John Brown
Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. -- Epicurus

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