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Ursula K. LeGuin

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep
URSULA K. LEGUIN Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprof...
BIBLE from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, r...
URSULA K. LEGUIN This type of a margins tax would be paid whether you were profitable or not. Unprofitable businesses...
BILL WOLTERS It is unprofitable to hoard knowledge.
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE Exiting the unprofitable automotive fabrics business is a difficult decision, but ... it is a necess...
FRANK MACHER Love grows when you grow.
MYRAMUSIC When spring comes the grass grows by itself.
TAO TE CHING To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable.
WILLIAM JAMES In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other gr...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was give...
URSULA K. LEGUIN When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it sh...
RICHARD BAXTER It's impossible to gather too much information.
JULI ZEH Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
LEO BURNETT When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO When the devil grows old he turns hermit
ARIOSTO We're like everyone else. We're trying to gather information, but information is hard to come by.
GREG WILKINSON They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth go...
BIBLE Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred...
A. J. LIEBLING Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to liste...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When a young woman grows oldher vanity turns to shame.
GAELIC PROVERB Love only grows when yourself is willing to do equally.
MYRAMUSIC Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them exis...
TOSHIHIKO FUKUI Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES F. COOPER America sometimes grows very restless when they can't get their way.
JOEL DIEMOND Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We usually watch the traffic as it grows on the roadway. When you are tripping 14,000 cars a day you...
DAVE MCKAY It's a place to gather all the information and disseminate information to all levels so we have one ...
JAY PUNIA The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
MARY ASTELL We like to offer students the opportunity to gather this information.
ASHLEY HANSEN We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When a young woman grows old
her vanity turns to shame.
GAELIC PROVERB When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.
CHARLES K. KAO The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. WHITE A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answe...
ARTHUR WILLIAM RADFORD No action or investigation has been taken to determine who is leaking this information or why they a...
MICHAEL JACKSON We had a very short period to investigate but our information indicated that their action was immine...
JOERN BRO Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.
TOBA BETA Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to...
SHARON WEIL Information and action combined are indestructible.
BEN TOLOSA Piracy has the very real potential of tipping movies into becoming an unprofitable industry, especia...
PETER JACKSON …the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The love of money grows as money grows.
UNKNOWN The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, wh...
DALE T. MORTENSEN Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
KATE MCKINNON Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
PIERCE BROWN I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
KELLY RIPA The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With their low margins, they can't afford to have unprofitable stores. It could destroy the profitab...
BRITT BEEMER The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is i...
PETER F. DRUCKER When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve i...
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time...
STEVE GOODIER Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
SALLUST The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS When God's green grows it's rarely in rows Awry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.
SAIOM SHRIVER Catfish started to grow, because row cropping became so unprofitable, and a lot of farmers quit row ...
JAMEY CLARY Whack, whack. It never grows back.
GREG MCCARTY The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
RED AUERBACH The masculine grows by challenge but the feminine grows by praise
DAVID DEIDA I see an unexpected police stop as an opportunity to gather information on police corruption.
STEVEN MAGEE It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.
LAURA BULLOCK Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON Business grows in abundance when there is so much anticipation, passion and excitement in the job
ETC WANYANWU We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large...
JEFF BEZOS The only information I have is that he was at the halfway house, and was missing when they took the ...
CHERYL MILLION The information we really need to gather initially is to find out what researchers need and desire i...
HOWARD NEKIMKEN When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black
GERMAN PROVERB Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
ANONYMOUS GREEK PROVERB When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
JAMES GLEICK We've got 300 homeowners preparing a class action lawsuit - should they build here, they'll be getti...
DAWN MARNER We are examining the information that ABC presented to us to see if there is any cause for ongoing a...
ELIOT BRENNER Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate cours...
DAVID G. DYE He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or ...
WALTER LIPPMANN The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to e...
DAVID PUTTNAM A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it ...
ARISTIDE BRIAND When the sky grows dark and the world grows cold, I will shine on, I will warm the world! When the s...
TREVOR KOERNER That's pretty typical for a tight budget year. She can gather the information and bring it back.
BETHANNE BRADSHAW When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
RUMI And ruin'd love when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
GREEK PROVERB When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. econo...
TONY CARDENAS A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, ...
WALTER LIPPMANN RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. Th...
AMBROSE BIERCE When we store information in our conscious being, we tend to forget,but when we store information in...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an...
SETH GODIN One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
KARL A. MENNINGER One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
KARL MENNINGER

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URSULA K. LE GUIN We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?
URSULA K. LE GUIN My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN ... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
URSULA K. LE GUIN Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
URSULA K. LE GUIN But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen...
URSULA K. LE GUIN On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There must be darkness to see the stars.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
URSULA K. LE GUIN A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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