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Letter "P" » promoting
«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
directing, domestic, intends, intention, invisible hand, preferring, promote, promoting, public interest, The Public Interest
«From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.»
Author: Kofi Annan
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century, conflict, eradicating, flow, preventing, priorities, promoting, role, The United Nations, United Nations
«Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.»
Author: Adam Smith
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attended, consumer, consumption, producer, producers, production, promoting, sole, The producer, The Producers
«Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
equality, gender, genders, governance, precondition, promoting, reducing, sustainable, The Challenge
«Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
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Arts and, Arts and Sciences, blossom, contend, flourishing, promoting, sciences, socialist
«Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Civilization
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cultural, promoting, The Order
«If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable. If their intention was to deter us from our mission of promoting peace and security in the Middle East, they will fail utterly.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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accountable, cowardly, despicable, deter, deterred, deterring, intention, Middle East, Mission of, promoting, The Middle East, This Was
«Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.»
«Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
expound, foremost, gathering, moderns, promoting, purify, scholarship, unable to help, Veda
«I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
engagements, ethics, grateful, in the long run, long run, Open and, promotes, promoting, The Long Run
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