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legitimate
«There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.»
Author: Sam Keen
(motivational speaker, Philosopher, Spiritual mentor, Writer)
| Keywords:
cost of living, determining, devoid, devoid of, emptying, formula, gradually, legitimate, livelihood, pocketbook, pretending, right and wrong, Right to return, sense of right and wrong, separated, trivial, vocation
«To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.»
Author: Wendell Berry
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
cherish, Foster, fostered, fostering, legitimate, renewal, survival
«The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed»
Author: William Henry Harrison
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
govern, governed, grant, legitimate
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, agent, An example, An example of, beneficial, brethren, calculated, called upon, community service, dependent, display, legitimate, moderately, modest, poorer, revenues, shunning, strictly, trustee, trustees, trust fund, unostentatious
«The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
People,
Power
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, charter, chartered, charters, constitutional, derived, fountain, legitimate
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, aims, appeals, bullets, characterized, commercial, dictates, diplomacy, humanitarian, idealistic, intercourse, legitimate, respond, sentiments, strategy, substituting, this policy
«The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
free expression, legitimate| Occasions:
4th of July
«The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Caring,
Government,
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
legitimate
