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Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. -- William Wordsworth
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. -- A. Philip Randolph
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. -- Plato
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable -- Leo Burnett
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. -- Leo Burnett
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do. -- Luke the Evangelist
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. -- G. H. Hardy
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. -- James F. Cooper
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party." -- James F. Cooper
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. -- Mary Astell
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. -- E. B. White
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. -- Polybius
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. -- William James
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. -- John Herschel
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales. -- Claude C. Hopkins
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! -- William Shakespeare
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. -- Dorothy Nevill
It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. -- James Grant
When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight. -- Max Anders
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. -- Jeff Bezos
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -- Walter Lippmann
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse. -- Jay Samit
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -- Walter Lippmann
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. -- Brennan Manning
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. -- Esther Dyson
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them. -- George Washington
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves -- Anne Baxter
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. -- Anne Baxter
The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning. -- Napoleon Hill
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions. -- Minna Antrim
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought. -- Susanna Kaysen
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in. -- Thomas De Witt Talmage
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. -- John Strachan
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. -- Samuel Johnson
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian. -- William Davenant
There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable. -- Todd Solondz
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it. -- Alan Lightman
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. -- B. C. Forbes
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. -- Henry David Thoreau

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